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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John J. ("Butch") O'Connell Jr., 24-year-old nephew of the Democratic bosses of Albany, N. Y., had not been freed. For the first time since he was spirited away three weeks ago his uncles agreed to talk. To a list of 13 questions put to him by newshawks, Uncle Edward gave brief staccato answers over the telephone. He admitted that he had not succeeded in establishing direct contact with the kidnappers, denied rumors that he had already paid a ransom. "We are waiting for news," said...
...Diego, Calif., onetime President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico received two telephone calls demanding $50,000 on pain of being kidnapped. A 42-year-old poultryman named Patrick Fallon was taken from a farm at Bridgewater, Mass. Frederick J. Persons, 16, son of an East Aurora, N. Y. bank president, told how he had run away from two men who tried to snatch him on a dark street. In Atlanta, President John K. Ottley of the First National Bank identified two boys who had seized, later released him fortnight ago on his way to work (TIME, July 17). Three...
...where it had cracked up in the wilderness, result of a frozen oil line. He needed another plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie Mattern was first lost, a group of friends at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. were determined to find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which...
North Tarrytown, N. Y. received a check for $10,000, half the tax due from its largest taxpayer, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. It, was the first time he had failed to pay the taxes on his Pocantico Hills estate...
Errett Lobban Cord, automobile & aviation tycoon, was watching an airplane motor on a test block in a Los Angeles shop. The propeller snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...