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...days later, a committee of strikers retired to a Long Beach, Calif, butcher shop, put in a call to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in Washington. Though she was at a formal Cabinet dinner for President Roosevelt, she went at once to a telephone booth in her evening gown, began to argue. Hour later, the strikers agreed to return to the California, await negotiation of their case in Manhattan. Said Madam Secretary Perkins next day: "You can imagine what I looked like when I walked out of that telephone booth...
Charica A. Mabady, superintendent of the Reading Room, has announced the books may now be returned to the attendent at the inspection booth in the main entrance, "but," he said, "they must be returned by 9 o'clock sharp, not one minute after the hour or else you'll still have to take them to the Reading Room desk upstairs...
...Munro & Co. manufacture an ingenious "Munrospun Sock" into which is woven its own garter. Stopping at their booth, King Edward VIII pulled up his trouser leg, revealing a Munrospun Sock, and said: "I have been wearing socks like these for four years. They are the most remarkable socks you can get. . . . These really are jolly good! British buyers should try out new things. I always do myself." John Dickinson & Co., makers of paper shirt fronts for waiters known as "Dickinson's Dickeys," were favored with a jest by Edward VIII: "Splendid! But will they wash...
...melodramas. "The Prisoner of Shark Island" is undoubtedly one of the best of the cycle. The story is authentic, based on the tragedy of Dr. Mudd's life. Convicted, in reality, by mob hysteria, to life imprisonment, the doctor who had unwittingly taken care of the injured John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin was sent to America's hell hole off the Florida Coast. Warner Baxter, who contributes perhaps the finest performance of his career in this picture, makes Dr. Mudd the epitome of suffering humanity. The story, ably and imaginatively directed by John Ford, is told in such...
...Samuel Alexander Mudd. On April 15, 1865, two horsemen galloped up to Dr. Mudd's door in Charles County, Md. and asked for help. One had a broken leg; Dr. Mudd set it. Later that day the horsemen galloped away. The injured one was John Wilkes Booth. For his services, Dr. Mudd found himself suspected of being party to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He was court martialed, with seven other suspects, sentenced to life imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary...