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...Sisto revelation brought no immediate surge of public indignation against foxy Mayor Walker. The news of his bonds was juxtaposed with news of his Beer Parade, and pure chance sent also the discovery of the Lindbergh baby's corpse. Besides, the New York public had waited months for the Mayor's turn to come in an inquiry of which everyone realized the prosecution was as political as the defense. The public seemed interested not so much in what Mayor Walker had done-$26,535 seemed small potatoes indeed for a man of his parts...
...Owen D. Young, Edward A. Filene, Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., cigarets, oranges, electric lights. Old Dan Beard has had a pigeonhole since Henry Romeike's time. Sir Thomas Lipton was a client until his death, received packing-boxes full of clippings after the last Gold Cup race. Col. Lindbergh was a client of a small agency before his takeoff for Paris. When the bureau sued him for payment last year he declared he had contracted only for the first $35 worth. Harry Kendall Thaw has long been a subscriber. Largest order handled by Romeike in a single month was that...
Died. Mrs. Jack Maddux, 40, pioneer woman flyer, with her husband founder of Maddux Air Lines (now Transcontinental & Western); of heart disease following a minor operation; in Los Angeles. Last fortnight she visited her good friends, Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax...
...when the football teams of more than one Eastern university have become temporary professionals in "charity matches", when the negro who featured in the finding of the Lindbergh baby is promptly snapped up to clog on the vaudeville stage to the tune of $300 a week, when any institution or individual whose name is at all well known hastens to cash in on that notoriety, it is not surprising to learn that the tentacles of commercialism have reached out towards Harvard's Commencement activities. With a sense of mild wonder mingled with relief the CRIMSON learns from the chairman...