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Accompanied by her three-year-old son Mannfried, Anna Hauptmann appeared before the Kings County (N. Y.) grand jury to testify secretly about the actions of New Jersey Detective Ellis H. Parker and his son, now under indictment for the kidnapping of Paul H. Wendel, whose last-minute "confession" delayed Bruno Richard Hauptmann's execution...
...first place that John Jeremiah Pelley got to was Anna, Ill., where his father, an Irish immigrant, had settled as a contractor after a stretch in the Confederate Army. Son John hustled baggage in Anna's Illinois Central depot during summer vacations, taught school when he was 18, spent a few months at the University of Illinois in 1899. The summers in the Anna depot destined John Pelley for railroading. Only twice has he remained in one railroad job as long as five years-once as an I. C. superintendent in Fulton, Ky., and once as president...
...0nly notable absentees were Daughter Anna in Seattle with her husband John Boettiger: Son Franklin...
...President had a halfbrother. James Roosevelt, his father, first married Rebecca Rowland. She bore him one child, a son who was named James Roosevelt Roosevelt. He had a minor diplomatic career, died in 1927. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was not an only child. One brother, Elliott, died in 1893, aged 4. Surviving brother, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, onetime (1930-32) Controller of Detroit, is currently promoting a combination bus and rail...
Today few U. S. citizens are louder in praise of Joseph Stalin than that emotional but influential lecturer and journalist, Dr. Anna Louise Strong. Yet on Sunday, May 24, 1925, she wrote in the New York Times: "Now that Lenin is dead, Leon Trotsky remains the most popular man in the Soviet Republic. . . . Russia's best organizer . . . Trotsky is more popular throughout Russia not only than any other man but than the whole of the Central Committee" of the Communist Party whose General Secretary was then, as now, Joseph Stalin...