Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago something very serious happened to Vincent Doyle. One morning a package was delivered at his office, with a typed note attached: "Lt. Doyle. This is a fish-tank heater. Please install switch in line cord and see if unit will work. It should get warm." When puzzled Lieutenant Doyle followed these instructions, the machine exploded, tearing off three of his fingers and breaking his leg. George Rogers was the first man at his chief's side. Next day, when he took Mrs. Doyle to visit her husband at the hospital, he asked through his tears...
...Police Chief Cornelius O'Neill came to the conclusion that "that guy" was none other than Sparks Rogers himself, ordered his arrest. The wire used on the homemade bomb, said Chief O'Neill, was the same as that in one of Rogers' radio kits and the note had been typed on an office machine. Lieutenant Doyle recalled that Rogers, who generally opened the bureau's mail, had given him the package and asked him three times during the day to open it himself, but he remained incredulous. Said he: "I won't believe it until...
...charges, President Johnson sniffed. He declared that the General Alumni Association includes only 253 of the 8,000 living Howard alumni, that it employs tactics "almost equivalent to gangsterism." His answer to the charges: 1) He had asked Dean Slowe to suggest an acting dean, sent her a note hoping she would soon be back; 2) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes had found "no implication of dishonesty" in the handling of PWA money or PWA lumber; 3) Laboratory Assistant Thompson had failed to produce evidence of a seduction...
...American Press Association found it wise to get out of Vienna-or were bluntly ordered to leave. International News Service's Alfred Tyrnauer, an Austrian Jew, was arrested in the cable office while filing a story, his passport confiscated, his detention ordered; when the U. S. Legation took note, he was released for transfer to the Paris I. N. S. office. The New York Times's, bureau chief, G. E. R. Gedye, who had spent 13 years in Vienna, was ordered to leave the country in three days. His expulsion was countermanded but he would not stay. Marcel...
...elusive angel with promises the Digest's circulation would be all the better for being pared from 465,000 to a solid, potentially-profitable 300,000 by doing away with combination and bulk sales. Against liabilities of $1,492,056 (including a $60,000 demand note to Funk & Wagnalls-original Literary Digest publishers-$63,000 for paper, $30,000 for printing, $612,000 to readers for paid-up subscriptions), the Digest listed assets of $850,923,: cash on hand, $222,293; mailing lists, furniture, machinery, $377,794; deferred charges, $160,821; goodwill...