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Among Republicans, Thomas Edmund Dewey rose from 27% (before the Hines conviction-see below) to 50%; Michigan's Vandenberg with 15% kept second place, ahead of Ohio's Taft (13%). Herbert Hoover piled up 5%, sped past Alf Landon to capture fourth place...
Pounding south one night last week, the crack Paris-Toulouse night express sped toward sleeping Chateauroux. Outside of town, with braked wheels flaming, the express smashed into two freight cars and curled up in a heap of tortured junk, from which trapped passengers screamed for help until long after dawn...
...President conferred once more with Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joe Kennedy, God-sped him back to his post two weeks ahead of schedule. Foreign policy, meantime, was a hushed subject. To a press conference which got after him again about the sale of prime air power to foreigners, Franklin Roosevelt exploded with characteristic trick humor...
...issue was promptly broadened. Governor Aiken sped to Boston, met New England's five other Governors. The Government's flood control plans call for 32 dams in New England. The six Governors -Republicans all since last November's election-lined up solidly with Vermont...
...worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...