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...Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face on this reversal, the President left Hyde Park last week after a 22-day sojourn, sped to Washington for a four-day session of "desk work," calculated to keep him busy until the Legionaries cleared out of his westward...
...After a four-day investigation, during which he queried Weather Bureau officials, Relief officials, camp officials and residents of the storm-wrecked Florida Keys, State Attorney George Ambrose Worley last week came to the conclusion that no one was responsible for the failure to evacuate veterans on relief before last fortnight's hurricane killed 458 (TIME, Sept. 16). "There will be no indictments or recommendations of indictments," said he, bundling up his report and speeding it off by automobile to Governor Dave Sholtz at Jacksonville...
...fled with a few dollars. Around Boston and in Pawtucket, R. I. four cinema houses were bombed. New York police found no clue to the disappearance of $590,000 worth of treasury notes from a Wall Street bank. The victim of a New Jersey "ride'' was found frozen in a ditch near Matawan. And in Washington, 600 of the nation's leading criminologists, legalites, Government officials, social workers and law enforcement officers met for Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings' four-day conference on crime...
...House. Franklin Roosevelt might have sent to Hyde Park for an absentee ballot this year, alleging that business kept him in Washington. But, ever ready to visit his mother's estate overlooking the Hudson River, he made the election (see p. 14) an occasion to go home for a four-day rest and cast his ballot in person in Hyde Park's town hall...
...Three days later British Secretary for War Viscount Hailsham crossed the Channel with 40 British staff officers including General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. Chief of the Imperial Gen eral Staff, and set out from Paris as guests of the French General Staff for a four-day tour of the Franco-Belgian frontier and Wartime battlefields...