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...police operations and an acquaintance with back roads. Old storage plants make excellent hideaways, of which several are often necessary if the chase becomes hot. Such an organization can be formidable. The U. S. President himself set two Secret Service agents on guard over his grand-children-"Sistie" & "Buzzie" Dall and Sara Roosevelt-at Little Boars Head and Rye Beach, N. H. when an unparalleled "wave" of abductions, three major kidnappings and half a dozen attempted ones, burst violently into the news last week. Swindler. Three weeks ago at "The Dells," a suburban roadhouse northwest of Chicago celebrated for good...
...Federal small jobs. ¶ By means of a highly complicated schedule, the President had managed to see most of his brood during his vacation cruise. One whom he did not see, and of whom he had not seen much since the inauguration, was Son-in-law Curtis B. Dall. Broker Dall did not even appear at the White House during the prolonged stay of Mrs. Dall (''America's Sweet-heart") and their children "Sistie" & "Buzzie." Last week Curtis Dall and John J. Edgerton dissolved their two-month-old Wall Street brokerage house. Mr. Dall became a partner...
...health. In Cleveland he got a job teaching high school history, while on the side he took his master's degree at Oberlin. His call to Western Reserve as assistant professor of political science resulted largely from his reputation for using the library. That summer he married Eve Dall (no kin to the President's son-in-law), who bore him twin sons, now aged 8. At Western Reserve he is still well remembered as the professor who required his classes to read the New Republic when that polite journal of parlor liberalism was considered...
...hours later, leaning on the arm of his naval aide President Roosevelt was out on the White House portico to welcome his guest as he drove up in a limousine. Mrs. Roosevelt was there too and Daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall and Major, the police dog, and Meggie, the Scotch terrier. "I'm awfully glad to see you here," cried the President as he squeezed the Prime Minister's hand. He greeted Miss MacDonald as "Miss Ishbel." All moved inside the White House to have tea after the most friendly and informal meeting between heads of States ever witnessed...
Board of Traders asked each other: "Why else did Curtis Bean Dall buy a seat on the Board of Trade a week ago? He must expect it." Mr. Ball's father-in-law in the White House (where Mr. Dall visited over the weekend) took pains to foster the inflation psychology pointed out to the closed but not silent corporation of White House newshawks four points, all "anti-deflationary": 1) release of $4,000,000,000 in deposits still tied up in closed banks, 2) guarantee of Federal reserve deposits with a $2.000,000,000 fund, 3) higher crop...