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...hands, and with it the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Imaginative newsmen reported that the Black attack by air had left Honolulu "a shambles." If it had been real war, the Navy would have lost the famed tanks which Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny built as part payment on his fraudulent Elk Hills deal. The Doheny tanks hold four billion barrels of oil-enough to operate the U. S. Navy for eight months...
Florida. Though Brooklyn-born and Yale-educated, Governor David ("Dave") Sholtz, 41, boosts his state like a native. Round-faced and jovial, he is a Daytona Beach lawyer, an Elk, a Mason, an American Legionary, a Rotarian. His campaign speeches drew men from barbers' chairs with lather still on their faces...
...already an Elk, Odd Fellow, 32nd degree Mason and joiner of a score more clubs and societies, joined the Improved Order of Red Men and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon in 1930, the American Philatelic Society and the Academic Diplomatique Internationale in 1931, etc. etc., the Maccabees last week. ¶ How, after winning the nomination last July on the fourth ballot, he dramatically flew to Chicago to address the convention. ¶ How he campaigned 12,000 mi. during September and October. ¶ How he was elected Nov. 8 by 22,813,786 votes to Hoover...
...State's House of Delegates. He was once his State's department commander. In 1917 he went through an officer's training school, was commissioned a captain, served a year with the A. E. F. in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. Large (220 lb.), bald, jovial, a Mason. Elk, Shriner. Odd Fellow, he is married, has two daughters, is rated a "good fellow." He will have no qualms about the state of the Treasury while pressing the Legion's bonus fight before Congress...
Frank Joseph Hogan, "million-dollar" defense counsel for Doheny and Fall, returned to his Washington office from California where he secured dismissal of the civil suit to make Doheny personally liable for the Elk Hills fiasco...