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Dreiser on Tacoma...
...Tacoma, Wash., 'on Feb. 19, 1931, . . . 16 men were poisoned by food from the Volunteers of America soup kitchen, from which four died...
...PRESENT OWNER OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY" (Dreiser's capitals) to that fact that in Tacoma, Wash, "on February 19, 1931 . . . sixteen men were poisoned by food from the Volunteers of America soup kitchen, from which four died...
...crime of libeling the dead has been written into the statutes of most States, and not always is it necessary to prove defamation of survivors. Recorded cases are scarce, but one well-remembered is the conviction of one Paul R. Haffer of Tacoma for an article which allegedly libeled the memory of George Washington. The Supreme Court of the State of Washington upheld the judgment, opining in substance: Though there were no living survivors to be injured by publication, still memory is conceived to be memory existing in the minds of the living, whether or not that memory rests...
...captain of another steamer off the coast of Alaska thought he heard a plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle nor Allen was an experienced long distance flyer or navigator. Their plane, named the Clasina Madge for the daughter of Backer John Buffelin, Tacoma lumberman, had failed twice before: once (as the City of Tacoma) when Bromley & Gatty flew it 1,200 mi. from Tokyo and were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific) Thomas Ash Jr. was unable to take it off with the necessary fuel load. Japanese...