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...Coffeyville, Kan., made his escape to California. There he married, served as a deputy sheriff, grew well-to-do running a store and tourist camp at Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told his jailer that since 1920 California's Senator Shortridge and Representative Swing had known he was an escaped convict. Because of his good record for 34 years President Hoover last week gave William Kirby Robinson...
...crusader. The establishing of his whereabouts last week only heightened the mystery surrounding his disappearance. On Sept. 10, Mrs. Robins announced she was sure her husband had been killed by vengeful bootleggers. Month and a half later, two weeks after a visit to the White House from which the search was originally directed, she said she felt sure he would turn up "after the election...
...education. Starting out with a few assigned routine sources of information, the intelligent and ambitious candidate soon begins to delve into the vast resources of the University. Not only does he come into close contact with the different departments scattered throughout Cambridge, but in the natural course of his search for news he makes connections with men, both prominent and otherwise, which often in themselves repay the effort of eight weeks' solid work. Nor are these acquaintanceships confined to the University, as all the News candidates are urged to obtain interviews from leading figures throughout the country. The candidate learns...
...search all Aeschylus and Sophocles without finding a better example of hubris than Mr. Hoover's behavior in 1928. [His] . . . was not the wanton violence of the ancient tragic heroes but a smug arrogance. . . . His campaign promises ran to that excess which above all things offended the Greek temperament, which seemed above all things to invite the correcting interposition of Nemesis. . . . Compare him. for example, with Oedipus. Oedipus, like Hoover, thought very well of himself. We first see him when his country is suffering from a severe and unexpected depression. . . . He has appointed Kreon as a fact-finding commission. Kreon...
...Bean lived a little while and died. Where are the Bean pictures? There must be dozens of them left about the place. They are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Duped out of a pair of Beans he has in his house, the amiable doctor becomes frantic in his search for the paintings, which no one save the maid, Abby (Pauline Lord), has ever cherished. For a while it looks as if Mrs. Haggett had burned the pictures, that the only thing to do is swindle Abby out of her own portrait. Then the pictures.are found-and Abby blows...