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...debt was extinguished last week for $2.15. At Malinta, in the same State, a large noose was ominously suspended from Albert Roehl's barn to scare off outside bidders. Illinois' Governor Horner got a telegram reading "We are face to face with anarchy" from a Monticello mortgage broker who collected $4.90 on a $2,500 claim. At Cherokee, Okla. an attorney for Equitable Life was driven ten miles out of town and dumped from a deputy sheriff's automobile when he started to foreclose on a widow's farm. At Pine Bluff, Ark. a State judge...
...Last week onetime Lloyd liners Kronprinzessin Cecilie (Mount Vernon) and Kaiser Wilhelm II (Monticello), inactive ever since they were seized by the U. S. and used for troop ships during the War, were offered for sale by the U. S. Shipping Board as scrap. Famed was the escape from British destroyers of the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, freighted with $10,000,000 gold, into the neutral waters of Bar Harbor, Maine...
...Supreme Court voted the Minnesota "gag law" unconstitutional by such a small margin as 5 to 4 (TIME, June 8 et ante). But the first specific function of the Committee will be a celebration of that vote, on Oct. 20 at Thomas Jefferson's ''Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated "Freedom of the Press Room." Sponsors of the idea expressed the hope that newspapermen from all the land would make annual "pious" pilgrimages to the home "to refresh our spirit in the fountain of freedom...
...Sunday morning quiet of Manhattan's upper west side, two men entered the Hotel Monticello, went directly to room 831. There they found a youngish man in red silk pajamas sitting on the bed drinking orange juice. He had sat up late the night before, reading the New York Times. A chorus girl was tubbing in the bathroom, the three men went into room 829. A volley of shots shattered out. Then the two callers left as quietly as they had come. The chorus girl disappeared...
...with Diesel instead of steam propulsion), the Lafayette is the largest liner of this advanced type in the French merchant marine. As she was warped into her Manhattan pier not only New York but Virginia officially welcomed the mission Dampierre. In their famed colonial uniforms, Virginia's historic Monticello guard stood at stiffest attention. Just so their ancestors stood to be reviewed by General de La Fayette...