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February 8, 1936

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Borah Has Luncheon With the President; Poses With Hand on White House Door

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Borah has luncheon with Roosevelt

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Sing Sing Convicts to Get $50,000 From War Bonus

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Nearly 200 employee and inmates to get veterans' bonuses

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Quashes Claim Against Schwab, Awards Him $5,661,154 Instead; Special Master Rejects Government Demand for $19,654,856 From Bethlehem Steel and Clears Chairman of Charge of Profiteering on War Contracts.

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

U S claim for making excessive profits on wartime contracts dismissed; corp and Bethlehem Shipbldg Corp, Union Iron Works Co, Bethlehem Steel Co and Fore River Shipbldg Corp awarded additional profits

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RIGGING' CHARGED TO ASSOCIATED GAS; Mack Inquiry Aide Says 1929 Drive Ran Stock Up for $8,750,000 Profit. BOUGHT FOUR COMPANIES Concern Used Gains for the Purchases, Witness Reports -- Move Laid to Hopson. RIGGING' CHARGED TO ASSOCIATED GAS

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Charged by joint legis com with rigging market to force up price of Class A stock; replies

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SLUG 'MINT' RAIDED; TON OF 'COIN' FOUND; 2 Arrested as Makers of Disks Widely Sold to Cheat Subway and Phone Company.

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Repts heavy losses to Dist Atty Geoghan

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1936Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (born 1860)^[†]

Charles Curtis was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover. He was the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. An enrolled member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory, Curtis was the first Native American to serve in the United States Congress, where he served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Senate Majority Leader. Curtis also was the first and to date only Native American and first multiracial person to serve as vice president.

Headlines from February 8, 1936

Borah Has Luncheon With the President; Poses With Hand on White House Door

Sing Sing Convicts to Get $50,000 From War Bonus

Quashes Claim Against Schwab, Awards Him $5,661,154 Instead; Special Master Rejects Government Demand for $19,654,856 From Bethlehem Steel and Clears Chairman of Charge of Profiteering on War Contracts.

RIGGING' CHARGED TO ASSOCIATED GAS; Mack Inquiry Aide Says 1929 Drive Ran Stock Up for $8,750,000 Profit. BOUGHT FOUR COMPANIES Concern Used Gains for the Purchases, Witness Reports -- Move Laid to Hopson. RIGGING' CHARGED TO ASSOCIATED GAS

SLUG 'MINT' RAIDED; TON OF 'COIN' FOUND; 2 Arrested as Makers of Disks Widely Sold to Cheat Subway and Phone Company.

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