Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...directors had even less to say. For the record, Stanton Griffis, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Spain, was in Paris. Investment Banker Jansen Noyes and Motor Millionaire Walter P. Chrysler Jr. were "out of town." Financier William M. Greve, a man who temporarily gave up his U.S. citizenship in the 1930s, then returned home hurriedly from Liechtenstein just two jumps ahead of Hitler, was keeping his own counsel. One of the departing directors, demanding anonymity, told reporters: "We figured we'd get out while the getting was good." Only Wall Street Investor (Goldman, Sachs) Sidney J. Weinberg, 63, a dollar...
Married. Borrah Minevitch, 52, popular harmonica player of the 1930s and leader of a harmonica band ("Harmonica Rascals"), turned Paris restaurateur; and Lucille Watson-Little, 30, former costume designer for the Ringling Bros. Circus; both for the second time (her marriage to Composer-Critic Deems Taylor was annulled); in Méreville, France...
...Supper in his collection was a genuine Vermeer, Van Beuningen brought suit in 1952 against famed Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans, who claimed that the picture was actually one of the fakes that Dutch Art Forger Hans van Meegeren started unloading on the European art market in the late 1930s. Van Beuningen died two days before the oft-postponed suit was to come to trial in Brussels...
...main building of the University's vast maintenance system, remodeled after its purchase from the Sterling Knitting Mills in the 1930s, is the headquarters of an organization so large that is cannot keep statistical records of the supplies it requires each year...
...lopsided. His hands jerked violently with no coordination; his right leg was equally useless. Doctors told Mrs. Brown that Christy was an imbecile (actually he had cerebral palsy from a brain injury before or during birth) and that his case was hopeless. With the medical knowledge of the early 1930s, the doctors were not far wrong...