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...Franklin Roosevelt's summer plans, a tentative schedule providing a mixture of politics and ceremony, family and fun. Next week he will attend the wedding of his son John at Nahant, Mass., then successively help celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first landing of Swedes in America, at Wilmington, Del.; lay the cornerstone of the Federal building at the New York World's Fair; visit Gettysburg for the Battle's 75th anniversary; go to Marietta, Ohio for the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory; go calling in seven other States where his presence...
...building piers or artificial islands and drilling downward (which is likely to ruin the beaches) or by whip-stocking down slantwise from the shore. Politically, it is more complicated. Standard Oil of California owns or controls virtually all of Huntington Beach and a good share of Long Beach and Wilmington Beach. Standard is as much of a political issue in California as Southern Pacific was 25 years ago. Standard's foes in the State Legislature, led by excitable Senator Culbert Olson, hotly denounce Governor Frank Merriam whenever he shows what they regard as partiality for Standard. Year ago, when...
...been pretty well established that the three-mile strip is theirs; in the case of States like California the natural confusion and controversy are a hundred times confounded. Last winter, a special session of the California Legislature concerned itself with little else. For off Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Wilmington Beach in Los Angeles Harbor and up & down the California coast are pools of oil thought to be worth...
...Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...
...Total value of U. S. war material shipments to Germany since 1935 is $1,634,227-barely enough to kill 65 soldiers, since the average cost of a war death is estimated at $25,000. Last week, 20,000 bombs, sold by Atlas Powder Co. of Wilmington, Del. were hoisted aboard North German Lloyd's freighter, Frankcnwald, before the freighter upped anchor for Bremen. The bombs, last of four shipments sold "to parties in the U. S.," cleared by the State Department, were for transshipment when they reach Germany. Where the shipment would eventually wind up, no official would...