Tag: August 1931
Spy Games Over the Pacific: Fliers’ Brush with Japanese Censors
In a daring bid to clear their names, American fliers Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pangborn set out today to prove they’re not spies. Their nonstop flight from Tokyo to Seattle, a 5,000-mile ordeal, is their chance to convince the Japanese police they’re not out to compromise national security. Yesterday, their arrival at Tachikawa airfield in…
Angelo Marino, Strangulation, New York 2024
In a brazen display of underworld vengeance, a man was found strangled to death and tied up in blankets in a gruesome killing that has left authorities scrambling for answers. The victim, whose identity was only recently confirmed, was identified as Angelo Marino, a man with a troubled past, having been arrested and released on…
Albeit B Fall, Teapot Dome Scandal, Wyoming 1922
In a stunning letter to President Herbert Hoover, former US Bureau of Mines director H. Poster Bain of New York has come to the defense of Albeit B. Fall, the former Secretary of the Interior convicted of accepting a bribe in connection with the leasing of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, California, naval oil…
