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Protesting against the expulsion of Robert Burke from Columbia University, the Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union at their first organization meeting last night passed a resolution to send a telegram to President Nicholas Murray Butler...
Nevertheless Publisher Tichenor continued to think that he had a good political thing by the tail. To keep his two stories alive last week he released a telegram he had just received from Herbert Reed: "Elliott Roosevelt's denial ... is not surprising to me. He and his father will probably similarly deny having backed my plan for reorganization of the nation's air lines ... for which Elliott and his associates were to receive an interest estimated at $750,000 per year, because at the time we were dealing I was warned to expect such denials if there...
Governor McNutt, onetime national commander of the American Legion, announced that he had "no authority." The White House telegram was passed on to Attorney General Cummings, who sagely remarked: "Apparently there is no Federal question involved. If there is, that would be different...
...provides cannot end her restlessness. She loves to drive, gets a job running liquor over the mountains. Once she drives her car into the car of Federal agents to prevent the capture of a valuable liquor stock. She becomes notorious as the girl rumrunner, dresses expensively, always carries a telegram saying her husband has been hurt to explain her speeding when she is stopped. She sees a young, romantic descendant of an old Virginia family made the instrument for killing one of Halsey's enemies. She grows fond of a reckless college boy who runs liquor for the excitement...
...simply, it presents the reader with all the clues in the order and in the fashion that the police uncover them, lets him form his own conclusions about the crime. File on Bolitho Blane is a collection of various objects found at the scene of a murder, together with telegrams, memoranda, stenographic reports of interviews with suspects, bound together in a bulky loose-leaf binding. First exhibit is a telegram from Carlton Rocksavage to the police of Miami, Fla., announcing the suicide on his yacht of Bolitho Blane. Next is a police memo ordering Officer Keys Kettering to investigate. Most...