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...admission. It was just a "lark" for him, he said. He and four other New Jerseyites had been shooting at a target in one of their back yards. They drank some New Jersey stuff and decided to go hunting deer. They sighted the Los Angeles. Merton Hankins wanted a ride. He waved his hands. He shouted. He jumped up and down. He turned capers. Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley of the Los Angeles paid no heed, so Merton Hankins fired his shotgun at the ship, he said, "just to attract attention...
...Hoover week-end outing: A motor ride into the Maryland foothills of the Blue Ridge, where President Hoover got lost on a back road; an inspection of a farm patented in two 50-acre tracts by Andrew Hoover, the President's great-great-great-grandfather, in 1746 and 1748, prior to his migration to North Carolina in 1762. William Zepp now owns the site of the ancestral Hoover home...
William Gibbs McAdoo placatingly ex plained that, after he had exhorted San Diegoans to buy Liberty Bonds and keep courage to win the War, he did not have face to refuse a proffered air ride. He would have seemed to lack courage...
Following general advances in the price of crude oil. Standard Oil of Indiana and Sinclair Refining (subsidiary of Sinclair Consolidated) announced increases in the wholesale price of gasoline (½? to 1? a gal- lon on carload lots). Meanwhile production continued to ride boisterously in advance of previous figures and President Hoover himself was moved to call an oil-restriction conference which, meeting...
...resolve to confess the inmost secret of their lives. The confessions, mulled by the coroner, complicate his decision to marry Arielle, young, beautiful, mysterious. Her mystery resolves itself into insanity. The coroner devotes the rest of his life to guarding Arielle. Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify...