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...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Oilman Out | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...white, one informal and black. White: Chairman, William Cameron Forbes, onetime Governor General of the Philippines; Henry Prather Fletcher, one-time Ambassador to Italy; Elie Vezina of Rhode Island, Papally beknighted newsman; James Kerney, editor of the Trenton (N. J.) Times; William Allen White, Editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette. Black: Mr. Hoover appointed an informal, independent commission headed by Robert Russa Moton, President of Tuskegee Institute, to make an exhaustive survey of Haitian education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Winter Vacation | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...lola, Kan., Ira Sutton, hotel clerk, wrote in succession on his register the names of three salesmen for a refrigerator company, a Mr. Coldsnow, a Mr. Winter, a Mr. Coldiron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Perfect | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. supper begins promptly at 3:10 p. m. Reason: the institution is so overcrowded that eating must start early to get the last convict fed before bedtime. To remedy this and many another condition of convict-herding, which goaded U. S. prisoners to riotous fury last year, the House of Representatives last week approved a batch of bills to start President Hoover's $7,000,000 prison reform program. Among other things they provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Prison Reform | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Martin Johnson, 45, ran away from his home in Independence, Kan., when he was 14. He worked for a while as bellhop in a Chicago hotel, worked his way East and then to Liverpool on a cattle boat. Coming back from England on a U. S. liner as a stowaway the next year, he read in an outdated magazine about the trip around the world in a 40-foot boat that Jack London was planning to take. London's cook had quit. Johnson applied by letter for the job. London wired Johnson: "Can you cook? Salary $25 a month, also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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