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...Staten Island, N. Y., one George Sheridan, of the Fire Prevention Bureau, mortgaged his home, bet $15,000 at 5 to 4 that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected Governor, banked...
There were some labor-union leaders to be lunched and golfed with; two bridges between Staten Island and New Jersey to open formally; a clemency plea from two convicted murderers to consider. There was an inaccurate "shot" in a Prohibition film to denounce and have omitted. Then there was Mrs. Smith's departure for Houston, the first time in a long time that Alfred Emanuel Smith had been separated from his wife for any great length of time. So Alfred Emanuel Smith had plenty to think about last week besides politics...
...ferry pier in Manhattan a crowd of commuters waiting for the boat that would take them to Staten Island saw a line of small boats come round the curve of the harbor. They were racing, each boat a dark point capping a triangle of spray; the commuters looked on with interest. Suddenly one boat choked, caught fire; the men on board could be seen working wildly, throwing something on the burning engine. The other boats swept on, then in a feather of foam one swerved, capsized; a coast guard cutter raced out to pick up the men in the water...
Next day the commuters read in their papers how the outboard motorboats that they had seen had raced round Staten Island and how Baby Olds, piloted by D. W. Brewster, had won after Miss Princess caught fire and the Corson upset. And they read how in all the waters fringing the continent little boats, big boats, sailboats, motorboats, were being launched, sailed, raced...
Last week, as he took his ease in a country manor, placid Ziggy did not reflect that almost every dead U. S. producer of gay, tinkling dramatics has died without funds. Instead, he reflected that an airplane, driven by Bernt Balchen, had just made a record driving from Staten Island to Detroit; that the airplane was the very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister...