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...President Hoover. spreading his alarm on the front page of the nation's Press, ordered a search by Federal agents. Mrs. Robins feared her husband had been kidnapped by gangsters to avenge his Dry sleuthing in Florida last spring. Acquaintances later reported seeing him hurrying around Chicago. Commented Lemuel Parton, oldtime newsman: "Col. Robins, no longer like Mirabeau, has changed a lot. Halsted and West Madison Streets haven't changed at all." ¶After a two weeks' vacation Hoover Secretary Theodore ("Ted") Joslin returned to his White House job. His substitute Edward Tracy ("Ted") Clark, old-time...
...Commissioner, except that he also administers the departments of fire, building, elevator and electrical inspection, maintenance & repairs. Most famed of Philadelphia's recent Safety Directors was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, who tried to dry up the city. In 1928 aggressive, door-smashing Lemuel B. Schofield was appointed following a grand jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief...
Jubilant Negro dailies throughout the U. S. hailed last week the "race justice" of Soviet Russia's courts. In Moscow two white U. S. workmen, Lemuel ("Lem") Lewis of Detroit and William ("Bill") Brown of Toledo, had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a Negro waiter in the mess hall of a Soviet factory-this crime being known to Red jurists as "racial Chauvinism...
...Manhattan Limited. With two hours to kill, he went to a cinema. Detectives picked him up as he came out, took from him a .38 calibre revolver, courteously escorted him to police headquarters. Bail was set at $35,000. At midnight he was questioned by Director of Public Safety Lemuel B.Schofield and made these statements...
...this, said Mayor Mackey, but it was "the only wise thing." It was "no reflection upon his [Davis'] integrity in the slightest degree" but Mayor Mackey perceived that Philadelphia's police department needed reorganizing. As re-organizer and new Director of Public Safety, Mayor Mackey appointed Major Lemuel B. Schofield, aide of District Attorney Monaghan...