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Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...
...West trip which ended last week, G. 0. Politicians who will conduct his campaign for re-election next year balanced up the trip's profit & loss. On his excursion the President behaved like a candidate, even if he did not talk like one. He took local Republican leaders aboard his special train for political hobnobbing. From the rear platform of his car he conversed easily with boys about dogs and fishing. He unbent to the point of making several extemporaneous speeches. He shook thousands of hands...
...electric chair (TIME, June 15). Soon after Starr Faithfull's body was found, the district attorney announced she had been killed by two men. one prominent in politics, her body taken out in a boat and thrown overboard. Next day he declared that the girl was knocked unconscious aboard a boat, then thrown into the water. By then the prominent politician had been "practically eliminated." Ultimately Prosecutor Edwards was weighing suicide against the murder theory...
...great ship down. First the Graf poked her nose gingerly into the lake, then gently let her stern settle until she rested evenly upon her waterproofed gondolas. An umbrella-like sea-anchor was thrown out. Two collapsible rubber boats were launched. After several minutes maneuvers the equipment was taken aboard again and the Graf taxied a mile or so along the water. Then, dropping water ballast, she arose easily, sailed on to her hangar...
...Aboard the steamship Roma, Mrs?Charlotte Nash Nixon-Nirdlinger returned to the U. S. from Nice, where a court had justified her killing her wealthy, elderly husband. Said she: "Sometimes I'm sorry that I am beautiful, considering; all the trouble I've had over it." During the interview Baby Charlotte screamed and Son Fred, 4. beat Grandmother Nash on the head with a paper horn...