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When President Poole finished speaking, the Mercantile Exchange members decided to fight this type of thing "to the last ditch." They wrote to associates, friends and correspondents all over the U. S. about the "outrage." President Poole communicated with Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Chairman Stone of the Federal Farm Board, also the Federal Trade Commission...
...four Hoovercade cars finally got around it. The last car, driven by Frank Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, started to go around at 50 m. p. h. when a rear wheel skidded and the bus sent Connor's machine spinning over & over into the ditch. Connor's wife broke her collarbone, suffered other injuries. Her husband got off with bruises. ¶Despite the Hoover debt holiday. Germany teetered all week on the edge of financial collapse (see p. 20). President Hoover announced that Germany's rescue would have to be accomplished privately or abroad, that...
...Leming, Tex. 11-year-old Merle Springer had most of her clothes torn off and was stabbed 33 times with a penknife, so that she died in a ditch only 300 yd. from her home. A mammoth posse was organized last week to scour the countryside for her assailant...
...gathered to catch a company train down the narrow-gauge to safety. Before they knew it, the marauders were upon them. Overseers John Humphreys Bryan, Percy Davis. Hubert Ogelvie Wilson and William Bond Jr., all Standard employes, were butchered, their heads hacked off. Wounded. James Lloyd dived into a ditch, feigned dead until the bandits left. Cathey Wilson escaped by jumping into the Wawa River, hiding two days in the jungle...
...redtape of international flying for presentation at the next meeting of the Federation. As the plane approached Allahabad, India last week a vulture flew into one of the propellers. About two hours later the propeller developed trouble, the pilot made a forced landing, the plane ran into a ditch, burned up. All four occupants escaped death but were severely injured...