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There and then would their party convene to renominate Herbert Clark Hoover for the Presidency.† The Republican National Committee, 100 members strong, so determined during its two-day meeting in the ballroom atop the New Willard in Washington. Down upon its sessions looked an enormous picture of the President ten years younger than reality...
...honors in lightweight boxing class. I knew both of his opponents but not him. I was a boxer and soon after a contestant and winner in 1881 and 1882. There is no dispute: the records show it, and I have two cups to show. Incidentally I sat perched atop a partition at this meeting by the side of Classmate Owen Wister...
...answer. She has shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York business announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop the scaffolding, made recipients gasp. In her recent five weeks in Russia she had five proposals of marriage. She uses an Ansco "view-type" camera (but always carries a Graflex, too); develops her plates herself...
With the first frost, the Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5? to 10? per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small...
After deliberating 65 hours, a jury in Los Angeles acquitted Alexander Pantages, 59, theatre operator, in his second trial on the charge of criminally assaulting Eunice Pringle, 19, dancer. Courtroom spectators cheered loudly, leaped atop their chairs, milled about the rich showman and his wife. On his first trial, two years ago, Mr. Pantages was convicted, sentenced to prison for 1-to-50 years. Promptly Miss Pringle began suit for $1,000,000 damages. The convicted man was freed on $100,000 bail while he appealed for-and won-a new trial because the court had forbidden testimony relating...