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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week at Bismarck, N...
...President repeated his solemn declaration that there would be no politics in his Drought trip, not even at Des Moines where he will meet Governor Landon. In fact, he declared, politics would be "out"' two weeks hence when he addressed a seven-State Democratic rally at Charlotte, N. C., "out" the week after when he speaks at the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College...
Entraining next morning at New Castle, he headed north to Chautauqua. N. Y., where his parents used to take him every summer, where he met his first wife. After dinner with a dozen old friends, he motored to the familiar grounds and in the opensided amphitheatre delivered his second political speech, interjecting a new issue in the campaign. Excerpts: ''In view of the great contribution Chautauqua has made to American Life, I was glad to accept your invitation to speak...
Proudly borne between grey-uniformed State troopers, an elaborately colored plaster bust was brought from the New York State Police barracks at Hawthorne, N. Y. last week and propped up before hard-boiled detectives at New York City's police headquarters. As far as police authorities could remember, it was the first time that an attempt had been made to solve a murder by reconstructing the probable appearance of the victim with the aid of a sculptured bust...
Last May two blackamoors stumbled over something horrid at the edge of Hornbecker's Pond near North Haverstraw, N. Y. It was a partially decomposed human head. One eye had been punched out, half of the nose severed, the lower jaw slashed. Last July a torso was found in Congers Lake, six miles away. Head and body belonged to the same person whom police surgeons described as an Italian or Jew about 45 years old with curly greying hair and the habit of smoking a pipe on the left side of his mouth. There were no other clews...