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...April day, six years ago when Herbert Hoover was President, Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, cashier of a "Garden T Shoppe" in Washington was mortally wounded in a holdup. One Thomas Jordon, 31-year-old busboy, was among those suspected. Two years ago Thomas Jordon, living in Mount Vernon, N. Y., and wishing to get married wrote to inquire whether he was still under suspicion. Two Federal officers went to question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times...
...Arrive at Harvard Square after examination of the Ye Olde Fishe Market, Colonial Theatre--where an old rumor has it that an attempt was once made on Herbert Hoover's life, and Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Fifteen minutes will be reserved for refreshments at "The Georgian." Notice carefully the well-executed Harvard seals on the walls. Here gather hungry and thirsty students at all hours. If the party will remain silent and keep its eyes open, it might see an undergraduate walk in. Under no condition must you disturb him; remarks addressed to or about him will place the entire group...
...correct answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, No. Had the South voted solidly for Hoover in 1932, for Landon in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt would still have been elected in each year by a big margin...
Married. Howard Earle Coffin, 63, industrialist (Southeastern Cottons, Inc., Sea Island Co., Hudson Motor Car Co., National Air Transport, Inc.), host to Presidents Coolidge and Hoover at his Georgia coast estate; to Gladys Baker, 39, Florida newspaper woman; her third husband; in Manhattan...
...Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group for 50 years. With primitive equipment the Austins were quietly digging out $500 per day when Herbert Hoover suddenly put them on the national mining map last summer. Out of "purely geologic curiosity" the great engineer journeyed across the Sierras from his home in Palo Alto to inspect the Jumbo, was greatly impressed, advised the Austins to hang on (TIME, Aug. 31). George Austin announced that he would...