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...with formal speaking stops only at Boulder Dam and the San Diego Exposition, after which he planned to go home by way of the Panama Canal on a cruiser. To put the best face on this reversal, the President left Hyde Park last week after a 22-day sojourn, sped to Washington for a four-day session of "desk work," calculated to keep him busy until the Legionaries cleared out of his westward...
...bogus bills, including a $20 note with which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau fooled his underlings (TIME, Sept. 9). �In Newark, N. J. police headquarters, a telephone rang and a man's voice said: "I've just killed three men. Come and get me." Police sped to the address he gave, found four slug-riddled corpses. After investigation they concluded that Charles Geary, angry because an aunt had left him out of her will, had killed his brother and two uncles before turning his shotgun on himself...
...bearing the Cardinal's train; Joseph J. Mulholland, who got the job of ecclesiastical valet by writing a prize-winning essay on "The Influence and Benefit of the Congress to Catholics and non-Catholics of Cleveland." These four marked time for a day while the S. S. Rex sped into New York harbor bearing Monsignor Diego Venini, private chamberlain to the Pope, and Monsignor Carlo Grano, papal master of ceremonies, who proceeded to Cardinal Hayes's grey stone house on Madison Avenue behind St. Patrick's Cathedral. There they solemnly handed him his credentials as a Papal Legate. Next evening...
...train with Father Coughlin as it sped East was Mrs. Roosevelt bound out of Detroit. There she had dedicated a slum clearance project, spent a morning at her brother Gracie Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts...
...Angeles dawn, she climbed into her black & silver Lockheed Orion, lumbered into the air, sped to New York in 13 hr., 34 min., 5 sec. Mrs. Putnam's non-stop record, made in 1932, went down by 5 hr., 29 min. Miss Ingalls probably would have beaten the men's non-stop record of 13 hr., 27 min.† if her radio compass had not broken down near Columbus...