Hoover end purge of party bosses in the South
President Hoover signals a policy to vet federal appointments hires for fitness and repudiate corrupt Republican organizations in Mississippi Georgia and South Carolina warning that if local leadership cannot reform federal departments will seek new advisory assistance and different methods in appointing officials. The action follows Brookhart committee findings and aims to restore public service integrity.
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TOTS AGAIN Play in White House with Hoover Family
Washington The Hoover administration will bring children into the White House for the first time since Roosevelt era. The two young Hoovers, aged three and one and a half, will live there with Mr and Mrs Herbert Hoover Jr. The elder Hoover son lives in Los Angeles with his family. Allan, the younger son, is twenty one and may go to San Francisco for business after graduating from Stafford University in June. The president’s family reunites for inauguration and plans vacations at the White House while Herbert Hoover Jr. works with Western Air Lines on communications between planes and ground stations. Peggy Hoover leads the way in a playful reunion with her grandfather, with fond memories of Quentin Roosevelt and the White House elevator.
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Gang of safe-tinners tunnel Berlin bank vault
A gang drilled and tunneled into the West End branch of Discanto Gesellschaft in Berlin, pocketing several hundred thousand dollars in banknotes securities and valuables. The robbers entered through an airshaft tunnel after weeks of painstaking work and destroyed vault rock to escape while expert locksmiths had labored 18 hours to open the vault door.
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Belgrade Girls Warned To Quit Shaving Brows
Belgrade headmaster of a girls high school reportedly enforced strict dress and grooming rules. He threatened to discipline pupils aged fifteen to twenty for wearing bold styles and cosmetics, insisting eyebrows are the greatest ornament and signaling authority could reach daughters of ministers. This sparked public scrutiny as Belgrade strives to keep pace with Paris.
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Famed Middleton Place Gardens Reach Across Centuries
Charleston archive recounts Middleton Place in South Carolina as one of America’s first landscape gardens. Begun by an English gardener beside the Ashley River, it features terraces, lakes, azalea pools, camellias, and a Great House once with secret passages. Henry Middleton and Arthur Middleton are tied to its history.
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Henry Middleton
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Arthur Middleton
Chinese Tree in Gotham Gardens Poisons Keeper
A New York keeper at the zoological gardens suffered a severe poisoning after eating the fleshy covering around the ginkgo fruit. The fruit’s shell was not removed, a common practice among Whipese who trim the coating to release its odor. Decorative ginkgos line the drive west of the museum, prized for hardiness and minimal pests in city summers.
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Three Washington State students study on thirty dollars
Carton Ellingson Ralph Varl ton and Kenneth Kadaw three college students at Washington State College live on thirty dollars a month. They share free tuition room and heat while working in the college gym and as a stage electrician to cover the remaining costs.
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iKenneth Kadaw
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Retribution hit and run victim Leonard Stevens injured
Hollywood writer Leonard Stevens author of the song I Paw Down 2nd Go Know is recovering after a hit and run incident in which he was struck by a motorist who did not stop.
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Leonard Stevens
Building Costs Rise as War Carrys Through Construction
A survey shows American postwar building investments total 2 billion dollars, with 7.5 billion more projected for 1829. The article notes a surge in production of common and face brick in 1927 versus 1919, reflecting expanded construction activity and its economic impact.
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London Stock Exchange History and Reform Amid War
The London Stock Exchange has long evolved from early brokers to a modern, regulated public institution. A wartime shift to Saturday closure faces debate, with a 12 month membership term, three-member recommendation, and required share ownership shaping access and governance under nine trustees and managers.
Boy Reverses Theory Dusted Potatoes In Rain
Sixteen year old 4 H club boy Maurice A Belbroce protected his potatoes from blight during a steady rain by dusting the plants with Bordeaux. Neighbors warned it would fail, but the next week his crop showed no rot while others died. He now sells a bushel with confidence that these potatoes will not rot.
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Burlington
Maurice A Belbroce
Finds He's Been Hiding From $350,000 Bequest
Qallang Cal after five weeks in se clusion. EB H Ruht, Utah painter, hid from an $850,000 fortune left by his mother who died in Oklahoma. He said a federal witness feared for his life and a mysterious man, later revealed as an attorney, sought to inform him of the inheritance.
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