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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectators in a crowded courtroom in Kansas City stirred expectantly one day last week when a trim young woman clad in a grey dress and a white hat climbed onto the witness stand. She was Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's City Manager. Two months prior she had been abducted for $30,000 ransom (TIME, July...
...executive order making it a Federal offense to ship from state to state oil produced or withdrawn from storage in violation of any state law. It was reported that 600 tank cars, awash with "hot oil," had rattled out of the great flush fields of East Texas the night prior to beat the President's order. Placed in charge of the "hot oil" order was Secretary of the Interior Ickes who had done much to get the petroleum industry on record against this brand of 'legging. He promptly issued drastic enforcement regulations which carried fines and imprisonment...
Lest the public get the notion that the Law is helpless in the face of thugdom, the Associated Press called to mind that in 18 notorious kidnapping cases in the past three years, 43 criminals have been jailed, three are dead, ten await trial. Prior to last week, the four most important kidnappees of the year were Broker Charles Boettcher II of Denver, little Peggy McMath of Cape Cod. Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's city manager, and Brewer William Hamm of St. Paul. The abductors of all save Hamm are either doing time or awaiting trial...
Exactly who infringed on whose prior date is a subject of bitter words. But when the Tribune applied to the N. A. A. for sanction for its own meet on July 1-4, the N. A. A. refused, revealed that those dates were reserved for Los Angeles. Worse, the N. A. A. had also sanctioned the Daily News' "International Air Races" for Sept. 1-4. Outraged, the Tribune declared it would run its own meet without sanction. That brought forth an N. A. A. ultimatum that any pilot taking part in an unsanctioned meet would be barred from sanctioned...
Last week the Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously reversed the prior ruling, on the grounds that the University was acting with authority lawfully conferred upon...