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Advised Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, who was forced to leave Washington early this summer with throat trouble, to extend his vacation until Sept. 1. Said Secretary Woodin: "There is nothing wrong with my throat. I've had it tested for everything from cancer to leprosy, but the doctors tell me it's nothing more than the climate. . . . The boss keeps after me to take it easy. He is very sympathetic and understanding...
Frank was removed to the State Prison Farm at Milledgeville on June 20, 1915. On the night of July 17, William Creen, a murderer serving a life sentence, slashed Frank's throat with a butcher knife. "I guess they've got me," groaned Frank, blood pouring from his jugular vein. But they had not yet "got" him. Physicians took 25 stitches in his neck, saved his life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan...
Last week Leo Frank's name got back into the news again when Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge pardoned throat-cutting convict William Creen, now a sick, broken old man after his 20-year imprisonment...
...river is windy in March, and the white birches look naked in the light of the riding moon, the Vagabond walks and thinks in inscrutable things. He may even break into a run if the night is cool and laugh when the wind snatches his hair and makes his throat...
...Trenholm fought his way through, managed to hand Pilot Post a jug of ice water which he drained at a gulp, and a white handkerchief to cover his empty left-eye socket (he had lost his white patch in Alaska). Radio announcers all but jammed microphones down his throat. ''Where have you been since last Saturday?" Manager Trenholm asked obligingly for the benefit of radio's millions of listeners. "Damned if I know," Pilot Post drawled wearily. "I'm mighty tired...