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...Columbus, Ohio, police commissioner, he gained fame as an amateur detective on local cases, joined the Secret Service as a counterfeiting investigator. But it was Detective Burns's exposures of the Department of Interior's Oregon land & lumber frauds during the Rooseveltian muckraking era, and of Boss Abe Ruef's corruption of San Francisco, that brought him to fame. With a handful of sawdust as his only clew he trapped the Brothers McNamara, later convicted for dynamiting the Los Angeles Times' Building. Convicted of complicity in contempt of court for jury-shadowing in the Sinclair-Fall...
...wore beard and derby, talked with his hands. A colyum in the current issue of The Zionist comments on his change of locale: "Here is where the Graphic gets our daily two cents." Two months ago many a Jewish weekly printed an editorial for the 18th birthday of "Abe...
...Booth Had Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...Open Match Play Championship at Lake Merced near San Francisco, last week, were most of the best known U. S. golfing names-Billy Burke, Sarazen, Horton Smith, Cox, Diegel, Von Elm, Kirkwood, Golden, Olin Dutra and two San Francisco Espinosas, Romie and Henry, less famous than their brothers Abe and Al. Johnny Farrell had given up golf for a honeymoon. P. G. A. Champion Tom Creavy was there but he had a bad knee. Tommy Armour failed to show up. Walter Hagen, Amateur Johnny Dawson, Aubrey Boomer (British pro from St. Cloud, France) failed to qualify...
...Governor Murray issued his shut-down order, he called in Cicero Irvin Murray, his second cousin and oil representative, commissioned him a lieutenant-colonel in the Oklahoma guard, sent him forth in command of the oil field troops. No military man, Lieut.-Colonel Murray was ably assisted by Major Abe Herskowitz. About 200 youngsters in khaki made up their military force. Major Herskowitz, in a final "fight talk" at their armory, told them: "Now, boys, you're going on a bivouac. Don't forget to keep your rifles clean." At the Oklahoma City field Lieut.-Colonel Murray picked...