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...Labor Board and been one of NRA's assistant administrators. President Arthur Dare Whiteside of Dun & Bradstreet had served the Blue Eagle as a division administrator. Sidney Hillman, president of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, had been on the Labor Advisory Board. From the Consumers Advisory Board came Walton Hale Hamilton, professor of political economy. Economic adviser was Leon Henderson of the Russell Sage Foundation...
Also ahead of the ruck was a candidate with an astonishing record. He was John C. ("Iron Jack") Walton. Engine driver for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in revolutionary times, he and a jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...
...just that order the picturesque field of candidates finished. Oilman Marland got 146,000 votes; Speaker Anglin. 95,000; Commissioner Walton, 81,000. A run-off primary was avoided and the Governorship was practically handed to Mr. Marland when Candidate Anglin withdrew. Growled "Cocklebur Bill" Murray: "I've often said that men would take a cussing or a cold or a rail off your fence, but would not take good advice. They [the voters] refused my advice...
Announcement was made of several other grants of leave of absence. Clarence E. Walton, assistant librarian, will spend three months from September 1 in Europe, studying the organization and special problems of library administration there. Dr. Madeleine E. Field, instructor in Psychology, will be absent for the whole of next year...
...ring of diamond, smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting of Mr. Bruce and his cohorts which raises "Murder in Trinidad" above other thrillers...