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...years ago the Senate committee investigating the Department of Justice suspected that alleged graft by the "Ohio Gang" had-been deposited in the Midland National. When Senators Wheeler and Brookhart went to Washington Courthouse to inspect its records, Mai Daugherty defiantly refused them access to his bank. He was cited for contempt of the Senate. The Supreme Court upheld the citation long after the Daugherty issue had passed into history. Hence the case against him was dropped...
...additional feature of the local celebration will be a visit by the Lord Mayor of Cambridge, England, who has been invited here by the city. Harvard's chief share in the program, besides allowing visitors to inspect its historic buildings, will consist in exhibition of old views of Cambridge and of old maps of this section of the state, which will be shown in Robinson Annex. The University buildings will be open to visitors on June 21. A parade is planned for June...
Seven weeks ago J. E. Bristow, oil operator, set out into the thickly wooded mountains of the west coast State of Nayarit with an interpreter-guide, Mr. Fields, to prospect for gold and inspect a zinc property. A week later Interpreter Fields galloped into the dusty, desolate village of Ahuacatlan with a scribbled message. Prospector Bristow had been captured by Cruz Delgado, was held for $15,000 ransom. The Mexican police instantly clapped Interpreter Fields into jail...
...alarmed. George F. Kull, secretary of the Wisconsin Manufacturer's Association, hastened to Austin, conferred animatedly with Texas' Governor Dan Moody. Mr. Kull pleaded for peace. Governor Moody, bighearted, invited Wisconsin's Governor Walter Jodok Kohler (plumbing fixtures) to come to Texas as his guest, to inspect with him the disputed Rio Grande valley land. If Governor Kohler could not come, Governor Moody asked him to send "a committee of businessmen whose word will bear weight...
...players, who during the past week have appeared at the Hollis Theatre in "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", and other plays, will inspect the Shakespearian relics and other dramatic treasures which the Memorial Room houses...