FLOWERS AND ANSWERS

Here are the answers to yesterday's questions.

1.  What American-born man became Prime Minister and President of Ireland?

Answer: Eamon de Valera, born in New York in 1882, became the Prime Minister, and later President, of the Republic of Ireland.


2. What American became Prime Minister of Israel?

Answer: Golda Meir, born in Russia in 1898, grew up in Milwaukee after her family moved there in 1906.  She was Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974.


3. How did Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan get his nickname? 

Answer: on July 17th, 1938, Douglas Corrigan filed a flight plan at Floyd Bennet Field in New York to fly to California, but ended up in Dublin 29 hours later.


4.  Where is Judge Crater?

Answer: no one knows!  On August 6th, 1930, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater disappeared.  After telling friends that he was attending a Broadway play that evening, he removed papers from his files and cashed a check for a large sum.  Late that afternoon he was seen entering a taxi, but hasn't been sighted since.  For decades people have theorized about the cause of his disappearance.  Was he involved in illegal activities?  Was he murdered by the underworld?  Did he run away?  Although Judge Crater was declared officially dead in July 1937, we can still only speculate about why he vanished.