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...night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...
...Stoop-shouldered, scholarly, homely "Charley" Ross had been chief of the Post-Dispatch's Washington bureau since 1918. Graduating from the University of Missouri in 1905, he worked for three years on various newspapers including the Post-Dispatch, then taught copy reading and editorial writing in the School of Journalism of the University of Missouri from 1908 to 1918. In 1916 he took a year off, went to Australia, worked on the Melbourne Herald. In Washington no correspondent was more respected by his colleagues than Ross. In 1931 that respect became almost reverential awe when he won a Pulitzer...
...Great Britain when she unhooked Sterling from gold, scrapped traditional free trade and set her industries humming behind new tariff walls. Today this hum has become a "boom" with riveters dinning all day in and out of London. Last week came another omen of British recovery as hawk-nosed, stoop-shouldered Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loosened the Empire's money bags a trifle and dangled the prospect of loans before countries which have hooked their currencies to Sterling. When he took the pound off gold, Chancellor Chamberlain slapped a precautionary embargo on loaning British money overseas. Technically...
...University and finally, in 1925, at Princeton where he stayed. At 43 Harold Dodds became Princeton's third youngest president.- At 44 his close-cropped hair is a steely, glittering grey, kept rumpled by a thoughtful hand. He is well over middle height, thickset, round-shouldered, with the stoop and shuffle of a man who has spent much time...
...quart of cream every day. Robert Abiel Rolfe comes from Penacook, N. H., graduated from Dartmouth in 1931, batted .326 for Newark last year, when he was voted most valuable player in the International League. Redhaired, ruddy-faced, his stance in the infield is characterized by a noticeable stoop, feet pointed directly at the home plate. Last week, in an exhibition game at St. Petersburg, Rolfe's single, with two out in the ninth inning, sent Heffner home with the run that beat Newark...