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Crossing a Swedish bog during an elk-hunt, a royal Swedish horse lost its footing, sank, threw 77-year-old King Gustav V. Pulled out of the bog, His Majesty sucked a bruised finger, quipped "When one is young these things don't matter." William Edward Dodd, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, sent by airplane from Berlin to Moscow a package of hominy grits for silver-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois recuperating from pneumonia...
...gold for 20 years, found little, switched to oil. tapped the Los Angeles field and another great pool near Tampico in Mexico, built up a $155,000,000 petroleum empire. He was indicted for bribing Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with $100,000 to secure the Elk Hills oil lease from the Government. was acquitted in 1930 when he convinced a Washington jury that the $100,000 in a "little black bag" was a personal loan to an old friend...
Franklin Roosevelt is deeply indebted to one great big Elk, James Aloysius Farley, for engineering his election to the Presidency. Last week he warmly welcomed to the White House a whole troupe of great big Elks headed by their Grand Exalted Ruler. But the Elks in the President's office were not of Elk Farley's herd...
...Goldfield. Nev. Now aged 53, he owns real estate in half a dozen cities, is publisher of the Washington Eagle, goes to all the best races and prizefights, has been Grand Exalted Ruler for 13 years. For the President, however, he had time to deliver a personal invitation. For Elk J. Finley Wilson the President had a most cordial reception...
Married. Aloah Dallas Elk, 26, blind musician, protégée of the Dallas (Tex.) Elks Club which adopted her as an orphan, had her legally named Dallas Elk; and William Parks, 30, blind Chicago organist; in Chicago...