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Charged with violating the California law against liquor possession Mr. Leavitt was taken to Santa Monica police headquarters. So was Grocer Dailey. They were not booked until 3 a.m. "Name?" asked the desk sergeant. '"Mr. Jones,'' mumbled Mr. Leavitt. Up spoke a detective to Policeman Carr and the U. S. Agents: ''You guys certainly are crazy. You might just as well throw your badges away now. Don't you know you've arrested President Hoover's brother-in-law and his name's Leavitt?" Mr. Leavitt nodded confirmation of this fact, posted $250 bail...
...Grocer Dailey, though he angrily denied that it was he who had handed the gunny sack to his visitor, declared that Mr. Leavitt was "a victim of circumstances." The President's sister, back from her club meeting in Hollywood, said the same thing about her husband. Brother-in-Law Leavitt also won sympathetic support from a famed father-in-law. Santa Monica's Chief of Police Clarence Webb, whose daughter Fay is the wife of Crooner Rudy Vallee, declared: "I don't believe Leavitt's a bootlegger. I believe his story. But the arrest was legitimate and I'll stand...
...Yale is singularly like a poor man who has been given a house to live in and has difficulty in paying the grocer," remarks the Yale alumni Weekly. The comment is equally true of Harvard. With one of the finest college libraries in the country. Harvard has no money to operate its ventilating system in the reading room. With gold-encrusted beams in Adams House, it cannot afford to provide rooms enough in Dunster House for tutors. Every moth has seen additions to Harvard's skyline, and every new building has increased the expenses of maintainance without providing...
...Governor-Senators who had done what he is doing?remained Senators-elect until their gubernatorial terms expired. "Governor" Aldrich said he would take charge of the State in a few days. L. D. Smith, another jobless one, got himself sworn in as lieutenant governor. E. H. Reed, Shreveport grocer, did the same, said he would attach himself to "Governor Aldrich's staff." Sang the groceryman: "Every governor needs a lieutenant governor, and that's why you need...
Swart, stocky Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Châteldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When...