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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cited, ingenuity, questionnaire, accessible, meringue, gudgeon, insoluble, parliamentary, aphorism, olfactory and lineaments cleared the stage of all but three. Then the only remaining boy, Angelo Mangieri of Hoboken and the Jersey Observer, 14 and totally blind, tripped on receptacle to win third place. Tiny Betty Grunstra, 12, of Clifton, N. J. and the Passaic Herald News, fell down on plebeian. "Best speller" was chunky, 14-year-old Waneeta Beckley of Louisville's Holy Name School and the Courier-Journal, who corrected Runner-up Grunstra and then spelled promiscuous for good measure...
...pond on the Mount Hermon grounds was drained, in vain. After ten days the inquest adjourned leaving Dr. Speer's death the greatest school murder mystery of the generation. Five months later Dean Elder resigned from Mount Hermon, went to raise poultry on his farm at Alton, N...
...murder mystery. Out went a police alarm for Thomas Edwin Elder, who was arrested next day at his Alton farm. He waived extradition, was taken to Greenfield. His alibi was simple: he said he had spent all the night in question with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story was absurd. Said he darkly: "I think I get the idea...
...sells what isn't his'n...
...Elected to the board of the New York Central R. R. at its annual meeting in Albany, N. Y. was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, new chairman of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. and a member of that exclusive group of successful young men who served the New Deal only to part with it over fiscal policy. Others: James Paul Warburg, Dean Acheson, Lewis Douglas...