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Last week, having made a quiet but thorough examination of the bombing, Bayonne's Police Chief Cornelius O'Neill came to the conclusion that "that guy" was none other than Sparks Rogers himself, ordered his arrest. The wire used on the homemade bomb, said Chief O'Neill, was the same as that in one of Rogers' radio kits and the note had been typed on an office machine. Lieutenant Doyle recalled that Rogers, who generally opened the bureau's mail, had given him the package and asked him three times during the day to open...
...union began a campaign to dispel the notion that its members are an irresponsible lot given to ill-timed whimsicalities. First step was a display of testimonials to the courtesy, cleanliness, service, honesty & sobriety of American crews. Not the least expert among them was a wire from restless Cornelius Vanderbilt: "I have been up all night during storms and have never yet seen anything being destroyed by the crew...
...milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting. The old fellow was Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager, treasurer, president and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics. The occasion was his 75th birthday...
Married. Barbara Field, 19, athletic daughter of Capitalist Marshall Field III, great-granddaughter of the founder of the Chicago department store; to Anthony A. Bliss, 24, grandson of the late Cornelius N. Bliss, William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior; in Manhattan...
...good deal like a gypsy encampment and, paradoxically, last week the Rumanian Iron Guard, generally considered Statesman Titulescu's poisoners, had just made a most peculiar pact with Dr. Julius Maniu, the messiah of the Peasant Party. It was described as follows by Iron Guard Leader Cornelius Zelea Codreanu: "The fact is that Dr. Maniu is for democracy and I am opposed to it. In the minorities matter, Dr. Maniu is for justice and tolerance, and I am for justice and intolerance. There is no justice compelling us to share the rule of this country with Jews...