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...Upon receipt of news of Secretary Dern's death, Army guns from Portland to Pearl Harbor boomed the traditional salute at half-hour intervals, 19 blasts at retreat. A train was shrouded to take Secretary Dern's body back to Salt Lake City for burial. At Bismarck, N. Dak., President Roosevelt rearranged his Drought tour to attend the funeral, was obliged to postpone for two days his Des Moines meeting with Governor Landon...
...governorship in November. . . . He is-or would be-a newcomer in national politics; and only heaven knows how badly the party wants a newcomer." So far as I have been able to learn, that was the first published piece suggesting Governor Landon's availability-a belief buttressed by receipt of a letter from Governor Landon a few days thereafter so indicating. WILLIAM P. HELM...
...when he could not raise $50,000 bail. Lawyer Ross, whose brother turned out to be a Brooklyn Democratic district leader, was let out on $5,000 bail. Miss Pavlick, newlywed and sobbing, was exonerated after the police satisfied themselves that her connection with the case had ended on receipt of the first $1,000. In Krone's apartment, searching police found a fingerprint camera, wiretapping set, a picture of one-time Governor Smith inscribed: "To my friend Mr. Krone, Alfred E. Smith...
...plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made out a receipt for the bail of John Torrio, paid in full...
...accept assistance. Mr. Fish found onetime (1925-33) Representative Carl George Bachmann of West Virginia, dragged him back from his law practice in Wheeling. Manager Bachmann, blue-eyed, husky, bald, collects the small change which falls in a scanty shower from admirers of the aging statesman from Idaho. Biggest receipt so far has been $500 from an anonymous donor. This rivulet of cash Mr. Bachmann diverts to Borah posters, Borah buttons, rent, telegrams, petty cash...