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...Colorado, Alva Blanchard Adams. Pueblo banker, onetime (1923-24) Senator, and nephew of the present Governor, nosed out John T. Barnett, wealthy Denver oilman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination, vice Senator Charles Winfield Waterman, deceased. Attorney Karl Cortlandt Schuyler of Denver easily won the Republican nomination. The Democratic primary vote rose from 47.000 in 1930 to 122,000 whereas the Republican primary vote declined from...
...York, N. Y. Nov. 16--Led by Captain Pen Hallowell, the Harvard cross country team today flashed through to a brilliant and overwhelming victory in the annual I. C. 4A meet on the Van Cortlandt Park course, making a total of 44 points...
...Point, according to an announcement made by the New York Central Railroad, in by way of the West Shore Railroad. The ferry service on the main line between Garrison and West Point is inadequate for the traffic anticipated. The football specials will leave as follows: Leave New York (foot Cortlandt Street), 10.45 a.m.; leave New York (foot West Forty-second Street), 11 A.M., 12 noon; leave Weehawken (West Shore Station), 11.15 A.M., 12.15 A.M.,; arrive West Point...
Three weeks ago, a racketeering young lady from Manhattan named Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon was taken for a ride in Van Cortlandt Park, was later found in the shrubbery, strangled (TIME, March 9). When it became known that five days prior she had gone to court with frameup charges against a New York City detective, her murder was regarded as a crowning outrage in the long series of revelations about the city's bench and police force. A storm of bitter indignation from New York's citizenry wiped the deprecatory smile from the face of the Tammany Tiger...
...York last fortnight someone knotted a clothesline around the shapely neck of Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, strangled her and threw her dead body into the bushes of Van Cortlandt Park. She had been about to testify in the city's vice investigation. Vivian Gordon became the story of the week...