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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raising $350 expense money. He told his hard-working mother (whom he calls "Bimble") that he felt as though he had "landed a whale on a trout hook." At last, this week, came the great day. Voit Gilmore rode over from Chapel Hill to the railroad station at Sanford, N. C. with Governor Hoey to receive the President of the United States...
...Supreme Court this week handed the National Labor Relations Board its first serious setback in litigation, at the same time broadened its already vast powers over U. S. industry. In Consolidated Edison Co. of N. Y. v. NLRB, the Court ruled...
Hero's End. George White Rogers first got into the headlines in 1934 when he clung to his key in the radio shack of the burning liner Morro Castle, risked the death that overtook 124 others. Having joined the Bayonne, N. J. police radio squad as a patrolman, Hero Rogers was headlined again last March after he handed an electrical "fish tank heater" to his friend and chief, Lieutenant Vincent J. Doyle. The package exploded, nipping three fingers from Lieutenant Doyle's left hand, paralyzing his left leg, laying Hero Rogers open to the suspicion that...
...Negro maid to an Italian mistress sat in the witness chair of a Brooklyn, N. Y. divorce trial last week "making horns." Carrie Cooper raised her hands to her forehead, sticking up two fingers, and made a laboriously ugly face. That, she said, was what her 36-year-old mistress, Mrs. Josephine Marotta, had done behind the back of her old husband, Giacomo, who is just twice...
...Ethiopian war, in 1937 went to Spain as liaison between Mussolini and Franco, boasts: "I unified the Spanish Fascist Falange Party machine!" Like Hitler, passionately fond of music and indifferent to women, No. 1 Italian Jew-Baiter Farinacci attended the pre-Czecho-slovak Crisis session of the Nürnberg Nazi Party Congress as head of the Italian Delegation...