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Thomas E. Dewey, New York's onetime racket-buster, was the gubernatorial candidate of the Old Guard. Alf Landon had a man checking in with the rural vote upstate to see if all was safe for Dewey. Herbert Hoover spent much time in New York, to be on hand to counsel...
Bart Harvey knocked out half the squad's hits, totaling two for four times at the plate. Ned Fitzgibbons and Clay collected the Crimson's other two singles. For the Purple, catcher Buster Mills hit four for four and center fielder Johnny Bezemes slammed a two-run homer in the fifth...
Like an elephant trying to curtsey, the . world's biggest school system last week coyly re-enacted its birth. New York City's Board of Education was 100 years old. To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars. They read McGuffey readers, wrote on slates, drank water from dippers. Bearded teachers brandished canes at boys in dunce caps. A gentleman impersonating an old-time school trustee drove up to P.S. 15, The Bronx, in a gig. The city's schoolchildren were so bored they didn...
...Promise. For months Trust-Buster Arnold has tried to break up a patents cartel formed in 1929 by Jersey Standard and Germany's Hydra-headed I. G. Farbenindustrie. Last week Standard signed a consent decree, released 2,000 patents royalty-free, took a $50,000 fine. In return, Thurman Arnold agreed to withdraw the most sinister conclusion in his complaint: that Standard had held up the U.S. synthetic rubber program...
William S. Hart, flint-faced hero of the silent Westerns, gave an interview in Man hattan, observed: "It would be ill-becoming of me to say anything against the talkies. But it's my honest opinion that the old, silent pictures were superior." Buster Keaton was arrested for drunkenness, pleaded with the judge that he had asked cops to take care of him, therefore knew he needed aid, therefore was not drunk. Unconvinced, the judge fined...