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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger list of the Normandie, just before it sailed from Manhattan, a purser spied the name of Acee Blue Eagle. Publicity-wise, that official hunted down a tall, husky Amerindian, persuaded him to exchange his grey business suit for a red blanket and a headdress of blue-&-white feathers. To newshawks, Acee Blue Eagle explained that he was not only a great-grandson of famed Creek Chief William Mclntosh but newly elected head of the art department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition...
Italy will get the biggest lot-62. To China go 16. England gets a murderer from Alcatraz. The lone woman on the list, a postal lawbreaker, goes back to Ireland...
...charge of this project was a compact, wirehaired, effective native Washingtonian just 40 whose name, after 16 years in the Government service, has lately emerged as a household word, Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. With an appropriation of $50,000 and an enthusiastic waiting list. Director Hoover decided: "First we'll crawl. Maybe after that we'll walk, maybe run, maybe fly." By rigid adherence to this careful program of crawling, walking, running and flying Director Hoover has built in the past decade one of the finest, most efficient law enforcement agencies the world...
...Rubber Co., a Watertown, Mass, subsidiary which manufactures Goodrich footwear as well as products under its own name. All this seemed commonplace enough to Goodrich shareholders. But to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, once-famed Cleveland banker and power tycoon, it became high treason the moment President Tew, in selecting the list of underwriters for the proposed issue, passed over the Cleveland investment house of Otis & Co. Cyrus Eaton used to be the principal partner in Otis & Co., which five years ago helped underwrite another Goodrich bond issue. Though Otis was reorganized and considerably deflated after the collapse of the Cleveland banker...
...another quarter when one John Weed of Beverly Hills, Calif., who claims to be one of Goodrich's six biggest preferred stockholders, announced that he would campaign for the election of directors to represent the preferred interests. Unable to find Mr. Weed's name on its list of shareholders, Goodrich declared that the preferred stockholders had already elected one-half of the directors last...