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...Tampico, Mexico, Enrique Bosdet and Salvador Rodriguez patented a contraption to be fastened to coffins so as to ring a bell above ground at the slightest movement within the coffin. (Mexican law requires that a body be buried within 24 hours after death; embalming is rare; danger of burial alive in Mexico is great.) Cost of the gadget: ten pesos...
...President Hoover last week picked a new director of White House entertainment to succeed Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to El Salvador. He was F. Lamont Belin, foreign service secretary. Director Belin, ranking as a minister, will begin his duties by arranging the President's dinner to his Cabinet early next month...
...addition to being the President's social aide and knowing by heart the official precedence list of Washington down to the National Screw Thread Commission, Mr. Robbins is also U. S. Minister to El Salvador. A Harvard graduate, a member of New York's Knickerbocker Club and Washington's Metropolitan, he has had long service as a U. S. career diplomat in Berlin, Paris, Mexico City...
...wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave him one son, Findley-for the past five years financial adviser to Salvador-and two daughters. He edited the Papillion (Xeb.) Times. In 1891 he was already full of Democratic sentiments: William Jennings Bryan made him his secretary, took him to Washington (paying his expenses, but no salary). This position lasted but a few-months. Howard returned to Papillion, entered politics. Only straight Democrat...
...airlines carrying passengers only lost money last year. Such operators have been hanging on with the sole hope of acquiring mail contracts. Last week Pickwick Latin-American Airways Inc. found its burden too great, suspended its service between Los Angeles, Mexico City and San Salvador. Other U. S.-Mexico airlines: Compania Mexicana de Aviacion (subsidiary of U. S.-owned Pan American Airways, Inc.) and Corporacion Aeronautica de Transportes ("CAT lines") which connects with domestic routes at El Paso and Brownsville...