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President Hoover left Washington for the Caribbean a very tired man. Even a broken coupling that split his special train during the night was not enough to wake him in his private car. At Old Point Comfort, Va., his party?Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur. Private Secretary Richey, naval and military aides, 25 news and camera men?was put aboard the U. S. S. Arizona, Capt. Charles Freeman commanding. The President was assigned the captain's two-room-&-bath suite while Secretaries Hurley and Wilbur bunked together in the admiral's quarters...
...gone on 24 hours daily for years. The famed Bank Club, however, was preparing to knock out a wall to provide larger quarters for the gamesters. Each game was taxed $50 a month, 50%, of which will go to the city in which it is collected, the remainder split between county and State. Slot machines were licensed at $10 a month. Although the State passed an antigambling law in 1910. since 1915 open card games have been permitted...
...diamond drill 131 feet deep at Noranda startled the mining world by striking copper as well as gold. A town arose and the great Noranda mines were under way. In 1925 the 20,000 Noranda $100-par shares were split 100-for-one. At last week's price of $27 the old shares would be worth $2,700. At last year's high of $44 a share, Noranda's valuation was $96,000,000 against the original...
Investigation disclosed that the Deni-shawns are not planning to split. What the talk simmered down to was this: Dancers Shawn and Robinson will both teach at a new Three Star Summer School for dancing teachers, which begins June 15 and lasts four weeks. The third star will be Florence Rogge, ballet mistress at Roxy's cinemansion. Leon Leonidov, production director at Roxy's, will give a course in rapid preparation of elaborate stage spectacles, admit his teacher-pupils to Roxy's dress rehearsals...
...addition, a group of rooms on the second floor D entry are to be converted into guest rooms, and the six-room suites on the top floor of D and E entries split up into smaller divisions...