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Jersey City, Newark, Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Mineola, again Manhattan, Poughkeepsie and finally Hyde Park, to vote and wait for returns was the circuit on which Franklin Delano Roosevelt wound up his four-month campaign last week. In each he smiled his ear-to-ear smile, waved his long arms, made brief inconsequential speeches that added no last-minute proposition to the issues. Frank Hague, New Jersey's boss, proudly exhibited the candidate to thundering thousands. Thirty-five hundred Republicans-for-Roosevelt heard him, along with Owen D. Young, from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House...
James Middleton Cox, the party's 1920 nominee, urged his Ohio to vote a Change. At Mineola, N. Y. John William Davis, 1924 nominee, said approximately the same thing. At Troy Alfred Emanuel Smith, 1928 nominee, ridiculed President Hoover for trying to frighten the nation...
...Hyman Stark, 20, died at the hands of the Nassau County police, guardians of New York's most swank and civilized area. Arrested for beating and robbing a county detective's mother, Stark was put in the "goldfish bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam's apple...
Last week, Sayville's patience exhausted, Rev. Major J. Divine was on trial before Supreme Court Justice Lewis J. Smith in Mineola. Two white believers, Helen Faust, Preacher Divine's 26-year-old secretary, and one James Maynard Matthews, testified that they believed the Father was God Himself. Said Believer Matthews: "I believe he is the perfected expression of God. I believe Heaven sends him his money direct." Testified Eva Connelly, nonbeliever: "Some of Divine's visitors shouted at me: 'Hello, Blondie.' And when I telephoned him to ask him to stop the noise...
...Twelve Mineola jurors declared Sayville's Divine to be a nuisance...