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...week, the track's managing director, dapper Walter E. O'Hara, sat nervously champing a cigar in his luxurious penthouse atop the clubhouse. By Mr. O'Hara's side sat his two lawyers and outside the door stood some 20 of Pawtucket's police, stout liegemen of Walter O'Hara's friend and political ally, Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Beyond them stood a delegation of State police, sent by Rhode Island's Democratic Governor Robert E. Quinn to arrest Walter O'Hara on charges of criminal libel...
...30th floor of Chicago's Board of Trade Building is a door with the legend MR. AUGUST KOCHS. Inside is a large suite whose three main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...
...Walter Raleigh made his early and unsuccessful attempts to colonize the land which he, ever the courtier, tactfully called Virginia in honor of his virgin Queen Elizabeth. A previous settlement had already failed when in the summer of 1587 some 120 settlers under Governor John White landed at stout little Fort Raleigh, on the northern tip of the island. On Aug. 18 Governor White's daughter, Eleanor Dare, bore her husband Ananias, a daughter who was christened Virginia, first child born to English parents in the present U. S. Virginia Dare was nine days old when Governor White left...
Pure Oil Co.'s president since 1924 has been Henry May Dawes, solemn brother of Charles and Rufus, and its chairman is genial, stout Brother Beman. Least known of the Dawes boys, Beman is a great vacationist in Florida and Canada, leaves active direction of the company to hardworking Brother Henry. At his desk on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Pure Oil building every morning promptly at nine, President Dawes rarely gets away for golf except on weekends. An amateur of Civil War history and photography, he is a great friend of Cartoonist John McCutcheon and Illinois...
...Dominican Republic was presenting to Mayor LaGuardia four solenodons. The mayor passed the word to the Park Department, which had never heard of solenodons. When the Barinquen docked with the solenodons, one male had died. Remaining were a male, a female and a baby. Captain Ronald Cheyne-Stout, Director of the Zoo picked up his three bedraggled specimens and rushed them to Central Park Zoo, clapping the mother into the hospital to recover from her trip...