Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passenger. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's wife's aunt, Mrs. Hoffman, 70, once declared that she would never ride in an ocean steamer, much less an airplane. Col. Roosevelt is now Governor of Porto Rico. Last week aged Mrs. Hoffman flew to San Juan from Miami to spend the fashionable Antillean season...
Surprised and happy was the Hoffman household last week when Craig Hoffman, wealthy New Jersey farmer, was brought home from jail. Brooding and resentful were the Polish mill workers of Manville, N. J. when they heard of Hoffman's release. Six weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 2) four ragged children from Manville's Poletown, two little Kolesars and two little Klementoviches, made an expedition to Farmer Hoffman's cornfield to snitch a few ears of corn for a "roast." As they crept through the tall corn rows a gun was fired close by. Johnny Kolesar, riddled with shot...
After six weeks the Grand Jury found the evidence against Farmer Hoffman insufficient. It supported his alibi, doubted Anna Kolesar's identification. Sole suspect of the murder, he was released unconditionally. The county prosecutor stated that unless new evidence was presented, the murder case was closed...
Engaged. Claire E. Giannini, daughter of Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bank of Italy); and Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, onetime (1928) captain of Stanford University's football team; at San Mateo, Calif...
...Characters. At the Front, frenzied and weary men lose their individuality, but those who stay at home reveal their naked egos when confronted by crisis. Among them are: A labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...