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While the President pondered this problem on the Rapidan, in the Capital 100 mi. away was occurring just the sort of thing that had been predicted. Fire broke out in "Tempo No. 4" quartering the Federal Trade Commission, burned savagely for three hours, gutted the tindery building, injured 20 firemen, destroyed countless Government files and documents.* Lost or damaged were the Trade Commission's records of investigations into chain stores, newsprint, power companies, cottonseed, peanuts. Replacement of some of the data from outside sources was possible, though slow and difficult. The destruction of "Tempo No. 4" gave President Hoover...
Idaho. For the fifth time Republicans assembled in convention at Idaho Falls nominated Senator William Edgar Borah for the Senate. One vote was cast against him. Senator Borah rested 2,000 mi. away in the Maine woods. Idaho's two Republican Congressmen, Burton Lee French and Addison Taylor Smith, were renominated. To John McMurray of Oakley went the Republican gubernatorial nomination...
Finland, a country some 30,000 sq. mi. larger than Italy, stretches north from Leningrad to the Arctic Ocean, a sort of buffer between Soviet Russia and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is chiefly known to the U. S. as one of the only three governments in the world* which maintain absolute Prohibition of liquor, and as the country whence come great endurance runners (Paavo Nurmi, Willie Ritola et al.) and house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid. Correspondents have described it as a country riddled with lakes, bootleggers and Bolshevik propagandists. Official Finland, puny before...
...Brattvaag, already on its way home because sealing had been slack, finally picked up one of the signals, put in unexpectedly at Hasvik, 125 mi. north of Tromso, for Dr. Horn to communicate with his superiors...
...Marvin Nelson, husky Iowa swimmer: $10,000 and the 15-mi. Canadian National Exhibition Marathon in the warm waters of Lake Ontario from a field of 173 contestants. Time: 7 hr. 43 min. 36 sec. Anne Benoit, only woman entrant, winner of last month's unhealthy Around-Manhattan swim (TIME, Aug. 4), fell far behind, was finally fished...