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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern's turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...
...Paris, a ticket held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed...
Under Secretary Hanes's search for revenue is leading him to consider taxing State and local salaries and securities (now tax-exempt). Here he will collide with a host of State and municipal officials, who are unwilling to play Franklin Roosevelt's proposed game of tit-for-tat wherein States would levy income taxes against the salaries of Federal employes. John Hanes's understanding of the scarcity and paucity of new tax avenues, and of the woes of taxpayers-for whom he often personally holds court-makes him a darling of the Garner-Harrison economy bloc...
...thus smartly passed on to the political leader of the group responsible for pushing Japan into her continental adventure, the responsibility for pulling her through. Also up to the new Premier is the difficult task of finding some formula for cooperation between the army and private capital, in the search for both victory and profits in China...
According to his sister, Dresser left in search of work. It was suggested that his ultimate destination was Georgia, where he hoped to secure...