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...Into the Eastern food markets moved three carloads of particularly luscious apricots. Each crate was proudly proclaimed: "Grown and Packed on President Hoover's Ranch, Wasco, Cal." A pell-mell demand for Hoover apricots followed until the supply was exhausted. . . . Great was the President's annoyance at this exploitation of his name and position. Careful explanations emanated officially from the White House: President Hoover does not own a Wasco Fruit Ranch. He does own some stock in Pozo Products Co. which in turn controls the ranch. The use of his name was "positively unauthorized," "grossly misleading...
Mutilated body packed into a crate and set adrift, but there is a triangular birthmark−and a love affair...
Porko, pedigreed Duroc Jersey pig, with two Great Danes, two Afghan hounds, many a crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier José Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima...
...Urchin Taft lived in Elmwood because his father taught school there; it was after his father, Don Carlos Taft, left Elmwood to be professor of geology at the University of Illinois, that young Lorado gave precocious and legendary birth to his interest in sculpture. A crate containing a cast of the snake-grappled Laocoon Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father...
Last week crate-counters smiled, rubbed hands, said "I told you so." When James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, had left Mexico City last month for what was announced as a vacation, skeptics had spied upon his baggage, counted some 27 crates of personal and household effects. Who, vacation bound, would travel so heavily freighted? Ambassador Sheffield, they concluded, was not coming back...