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...story told to properly dumbfounded reporters in Panama City, he stayed seven months with the primitive Indians in the Darien back country, then pushed on through Central America. Except for being robbed once, his luck held. By truck and Shank's mare he reached La Libertad. There he stowed away on a freighter bound for Vancouver. Seven days later he staggered out of the hold, walked unmolested down the gangplank at San Pedro. When he asked where the car tracks went, a workman said: "To Los Angeles, you done...
ROBERT D. SHANK...
...week, as their ancestors had done each 14th of Nisan for 33 centuries, millions of Jews throughout the world retired to their homes to partake in the Passover ceremonies symbolized by eating bitter herbs and unleavened bread, by the presence on the table of a lamb's roasted shank bone in memory of the paschal lambs whose blood had saved their fathers when the Lord smote Egypt. Unmindful were they of those Jews who 19 centuries ago had abandoned their faith to worship Jesus, whose descendants for centuries had at the time of Passover commemorated the Paschal Lamb Whose...
...home of his friend Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr. in swank Radnor, Pa. where he was spending the shank end of his holiday from Harvard, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. climbed into his La Salle coupe late one night last week, rolled off to a dance in Philadelphia. Just outside town he slambanged into a parked automobile, giving its driver several bruised ribs, a cut on the eye. Charged with assault and battery by automobile, the President's third son was allowed to proceed to his dance by taxicab. Next night he appeared in court to explain that...
Last week President-elect Roosevelt was back at his home-away-from-home, Warm Springs, Ga. There he was to pick his Cabinet before going off on Vincent Astor's Nourmahal for a fishing trip in Florida waters. The shank of February was to be spent either at Hyde Park or in the Capital itself at the Townsend home on Massachusetts Avenue. After that-the Inaugural, plans for which had grown so lavish last week that it was going to take General Pershing to lead the parade...