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...Catholics, some local and some from nearby towns, drove up to St. Barbara's to spring the trap. They man-handled the pickets out of the way, broke open the rectory's locked door, took possession of it and the church. Father Simon emerged, coatless, collarless. Once outside, he made no move to leave for his appointed post in Wisconsin. Instead, he joined the pickets...
Congress had given him much of the rigging he had ordered (TIME, June 27). He hastened to make it fast by signing bills industriously all week long, working at his Hyde Park desk, collarless, in shirt sleeves and seersucker pants. With hawk-sharp eye, he vetoed a batch of little pension and claim bills, several efforts to expand veterans' compensation, a $3,260,000 building program for the Bureau of Fisheries, a pay-raiser for the Immigration & Naturalization Services, a bill enforcing publicity for PWA subcontractors and material men. These brought his veto record up above 300 since...
...Levingston in Freeport who was a doctor of sorts. He was probably better-known as a hunter and fisher. He was well-known in Freeport; his clothes were of the best, money seemed to be plentiful, his diamonds were famous, notably the one he wore on his collarless shirt. His wife was a charming woman, cultured and much younger than the "Doctor...
...hotel harpist, asked her to play Deep in My Heart from his Student Prince. The harpist did not know it. Could she play his Only a Rose? No. His Auf Wiedersehen? No. Composer Romberg ripped off his collar, autographed it, thrust it at the harpist, finished his dinner collarless...
...Court House, was whisked upstairs by private elevator to the large office of District Attorney Samuel John Foley. Disguised in a brown cap and smoked glasses, the nation's No. 1 hero sat among a half-dozen detectives while another young man was brought in. He was unshaven, collarless, haggard Bruno Richard Hauptmann, indicted for extortion, suspected of kidnapping and murder. He was posed this way and that, made to walk, talk, sit, stand. Occasionally the man with dark glasses shifted his position for a better view, but Prisoner Hauptmann took no notice of his presence, had not given...