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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collector, an ardent archeologist, but reindeer are his greatest hobby. His wife (they were married in October 1928) was Laura Volstead, daughter of the Father of Prohibition. Last summer she, now only passively interested in politics, spent her time flying from herd to herd with her husband. It is one of Carl Lomen's theories that reindeer herding can be done by airplane...
...Aviation Corporation, $40,000,000 holding company, announced last week the formation of a subsidiary corporation (name unannounced) to consolidate under one sub-president its transport activities, which constitute 30% of all scheduled air transportation in the land. To head the sub-merger Aviation Corp. chose an expert traffic man, James Franklin Hamilton, president of New York State Railways, Schenectady Railway and United Traction...
...reporters playing bridge in the office late at night comes Chief of Detectives Crewe, looking for his old friend Sands, a better detective than reporter. There has been a murder, and a queer one. The dead man sits at his dining room table, lashed to his chair; breakfast has been laid for four, but nobody has touched it; everywhere is the thick stink of nicotine. The setting is melodramatic, but the action is confused, realistic: the policemen, the loudmouthed, lowbrowed coroner, the witnesses at the inquest, are photographically true to type. The satire on things political, policial, is at times...
...brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed to Manhattan, walked to Philadelphia. There he worked in the printing shop of one Keimer. He made many friends, among them Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania. At Keith's advice he went to London to finish his typographical education. In London "already there were three daily newspapers, the leading ones of the world, ten tri-weeklies, and five weeklies...
Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...