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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last fortnight the family asked police aid. New York thus learned that in addition to judges indicted, judges deposed, judges sentenced to gaol, it now had a judge "lost." Immediately the Press linked Judge Crater's vanishment to New York's current political suitfest-the network of scandal evolving from U. S. District Attorney Tuttle's discovery that Magistrate George F. Ewald's wife had "loaned" $10,000 to Martin J. Healy, leader of the Cayuga Club, a Tammany organization in the 19th city Assembly District, simultaneously with Ewald's recommendation for the bench...
Besides the regular bi-monthly literary supplement. "The Bookshelf" the CRIMSON runs from time to time, under the above heading "Bookends' and always on the editorial page, reviews of current literary efforts as they appear...
...enrollment in all departments of the University totaled 8312, and it is expected that the figures for the current year will be above...
Near Norwich, N. Y., the Goodyear VIII, with the veteran Ward Tunte Van Orman and Alan MacCracken, was hurled down 8,000 ft. by a vertical current. The basket hit the earth, bounced up again, sailed on. Near Canton, Mass., the pilots deliberately landed, they said, to avoid being blown to sea. With a distance mark of 550 mi. they were (unofficially) winners of the fifth consecutive U. S. victory...
...casket business is no static affair. A flux of styles from decade to decade keeps things moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk...