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...Harriet Metz Noble Livermore summoned Manhattan police to her Park Avenue apartment at midnight, informed them that her husband, famed Wall Street Speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore, had been missing since midafternoon. He had started on a walk after luncheon, failed to telephone her hourly as was his custom, missed a dinner engagement. While newspapers headlined "kidnap,"' police and Federal agents scoured the city. A taxicab driver who took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar...
...that did not pass. Of this explosive avalanche 2,000 projectiles were of the highest power. To Verdun and other War-famed forts now reconstructed and equipped with guns that can easily fire into German territory, France has added two more monsters, Hackenberg defending the great industrial city of Metz, and Hochwald near the Rhine within easy shooting distance of Baden. Hackenberg is a marvel of underground mechanics, equivalent to ten dreadnaughts buried in a mountain, connected by poison-gas-tight tunnels and served by miles of subterranean railways on which projectiles and even guns can be rushed from point...
...moment when the Nazi legions were marching to the East and to the West, at the moment when Benito Mussolini was watching his troops practice protecting northern Italy. Premier Edouard Daladier of France went to Metz to inspect a 125-mile section of the chain of secret underground fortresses and tunnels that will soon protect the French frontier from Belgium to the Swiss Alps. This section took five years to build, cost $100,000,000. Said M. Daladier...
While France's President Albert Lebrun, 61, was walking across a square in Metz, a bicyclist zipped out of a side street, knocked him down, banged his pate. The President of France arose smiling...
Married. Jesse Lauriston Livermore, 55, famed stock speculator; and Harriet Metz Noble, 38, concert singer, Omaha brewer's daughter; each for the third time; in Geneva...