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...Roosevelt's reelection, boasting that he could find no takers (TIME, July 27). If he thought that his offer would be safe because he was at sea, he was mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., hastened to claim the other half of the Gerard bet on behalf of a syndicate of friends...
Once soon after the U.S. entered the War, Skipper Claret was taking the Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm...
...course some of the perennial insiders want to hook up the Roosevelt administration with the demise of the Crimson nine. Wild rumors now in the air say that President Roosevelt became suddenly solicitous of his international relations and sent a hurry-up radiogram to Coach Chauncey et cle. telling him to take it a bit easy. After winning five straight games in Hawaii, one can see that things looked pretty gloomy for peaceful relations with Japan...
...Safe, Gemmie." On June 14 Pilot Jimmie Mattern, flying around the world, took off from Khabarovsk, Southeastern Siberia, for Nome (TIME, June 19). He never arrived. For 23 days no word was heard of him. Last week Mattern's backers in Chicago received an electrifying radiogram from Anadir, trading post on the bleak peninsula which forms the northeasternmost tip of Siberia. It read: "Safe . . . Gemmie." Further despatches indicated that Mattern had made a forced landing 50 mi. from there, damaging his plane Century of Progress; had subsisted for days on game shot with a rifle given him by admiring...
...meeting came to life when someone got up and read a radiogram from "Jimmy" Walker. Boastful as ever, he declared: "I have a justifiable pride in my six and a half years as Mayor. I know I could be re-elected by another overwhelming plurality. ... I cannot see how I could campaign without daily reminding the public of the unfair nature of the hearings conducted by the Governor of our state. This would do the Democratic ticket no good. . . . Rather than jeopardize the hopes of democracy in the nation which I feel my candidacy might do I request that...