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...wanted to question ex-Convict Maier, now grown rich and politically important as a manipulator of German votes. What did David Maier know about an evil-smelling city pier lease? But the onetime brothel keeper was not to be found until the hawk-eyed press spotted him 4,000 mi. away ? junketing around Europe with no less a person than Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker (TIME, Sept...
...Last week Betty Compton, musicomedy actress and good friend of Mayor Walker's, left the cast of Fifty Million Frenchmen at Glasgow, went to Harrogate, 200 mi. from London...
...dead centre of U. S. population as revealed by the 1930 enumeration. So proud and happy were the 5,077 citizens of Linton to know that an equal number of U. S. people lived in every direction from them that their Rotary Club planned to march the 2 9/10 mi. northeast to the Elkins farm and erect a marker. The knoll's location was given technically as 39° 3' 45" North, 87° 8' 6" West...
Since 1920 U. S. population's centre moved 22.3 mi. west and 7.6 mi. south. In 1790 this theoretical spot was 23 mi. east of Baltimore, has advanced 589 mi. westward along the 39th parallel in 140 years. Biggest advance-80.6 mi.-occurred in the seventh decade...
...Austrian named Karl Naumestnik, 38, last week walked across the English Channel from Cape Gris Nez to Dover. The direct distance is 20 mi. but currents carried the walker out of his course. He made the crossing in eight hours. On his feet he wore a pair of water skis. Two other Austrians tried to follow him but grew weary...