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...spirit the Post personified Bonfils. A barbecue party given by him got front-page headline type just as big & black (or red) as his attack on the current "worst Governor Colorado has ever had." A two-column story told Post readers how the publisher had landed a 7-lb. trout (which was later alleged to be a pet fish named "Elmer," snared from a preserve). He loudly invited children to write him descriptions of their lost pets. "Big Brother" Bonfils would find them...
...best man. When Newton was Secretary of War, Frank was first a captain, later a major in the A. E. F. Now a resident of Caldwell, N. J. he commutes daily to Manhattan where he is office supervisor of the sales force of Pettit & Reed, wholesale produce merchants. A trout fisherman, he took a seven-month holiday in 1930 to camp and cast up and down the Pacific Coast. He is a hard-hitting Democratic campaigner, seeking his first public office in a strongly Republican district...
...Hitler at last gone crazy? Had his nerves given way? Was he really in a straitjacket, jittering in a Bavarian asylum? He was not. Handsome Adolf was actually high in the Bavarian Alps with a few intimate friends, slowly flailing the chalky waters of mountain streams for speckled brown trout which his quiet sister boiled till blue and served on lettuce leaves for the Hitler supper. Even so the lunacy legend kept the chief Nazi pressagent, a former Manhattan print dealer named Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl, busy for two days issuing angry denials. The story was inspired apparently...
...President became a patient performer in their hands. He put on rubber boots, waded in his favorite pool, cast his fly again & again. The crowd and the photographers' cries for "more action'' scared the trout away but the presidential fly whisked neatly to & fro, caught no trees or brushes. Then the President acted out a homely role on the lawn before his cabin. He propped a book open on his knee, played with his dogs, strolled about. Mrs. Hoover brought out her knitting. Changing to riding breeches, the President had his horse Billy brought up from...
...date set by President Hoover for a Washington meeting of the "Committees of Twelve" in each of the twelve Federal Reserve districts to speed up business recovery. ¶ President Hoover and a stag party of eight went fishing for hardheads and sea trout for several days down Chesapeake Bay aboard the U. S. S. Sequoia...