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...curious fatality has dogaed the Representatives of the district. Five in succession have died in office: 1) William Horace Frankhauser committed suicide in 1921: 2) John M. C. Smith died in 1923 after serving 21 months: 3) Arthur Bruce Williams died after an operation in 1925: 4) Joseph Lawrence Hooper lived more than eight years in office before expiring from a heart attack in 1934: 5) Mr. Kimball survived eleven months before succumbing...
Next morning it was drizzling as Franklin Roosevelt climbed the ramp to his private railroad car. At the top he turned and shouted "Oh, Henry!" Manager Henry Hooper of the Foundation scurried up. "Henry, I forgot to tell you: I left two bags of seeds, one walnut and one pine. I wish you would plant them in the nursery." Up went the gangplank. Off went the train. When the special stopped at Chattanooga, the President quit work on his speech, went out to the rear platform. "I don't have to tell you," he declared to the station crowd...
Twenty-four hours later President Roosevelt descended from his private car in the streets of Warm Springs, Ga. Henry N. Hooper, manager of the Warm Springs Foundation, was on hand to welcome him. A CCC band struck up a tune, and the President drove off accompanied by his personal secretaries Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand and Grace Tully, past the Foundation where crippled children were lined up in wheelchairs to wave to him, on up the road to the Little White House on the slopes of Pine Mountain where Daisy McAffee was cooking his dinner...
...Many Sets Are in Operation? To answer this question, ANPA hired the investigating service of Clark-Hooper, Inc. During 22 weeks last winter pleasant-voiced agents of Clark-Hooper made 400,000 telephone calls to radio homes. At any given time between 7 and 10 p.m. an average of 36.4% of the radios were turned on. During the best broadcasting hours, therefore, advertisers compete for an average audience of 4,546,318 homes. But all the listeners are not listening to the same thing...
...Many Sets Tune in to an "Average" Program? According to Clark-Hooper, 9.1%. Thus ANPA arrived at the figure of 1,102,606 for the number of sets tuned in on the average program. That is 3.3% of all U. S. homes...