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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biography. The award for distinguished U. S. biography was divided between: Odell Shepard for Pedlar's Progress, The Life of Bronson Alcott (TIME, May 10), $300, and former Pulitzer Prizewinner Marquis James for his two volumes on Andrew Jackson (TIME, April...
little-publicized nephew of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, went on a beer-drinking bout, returned home, had a spat with his bride of less than a year, told her he was "going to disappear." After spending the night in Long Island hotel, where employes reported he had arrived in a boisterous state, moody Andrew Whitfield drove to Roosevelt Field, climbed into the cockpit of his small, silver Taylor-Cub monoplane, told attendants he was off to Brentwood, 20-odd miles away. Flyer Whitfield then nosed his plane into a mild easterly wind, disappeared from sight. Next afternoon an eight-State search...
widowed 24-year-old socialite who sometimes sings in nightclubs and is the daughter of Oilman James Andrew Moffett, filed a bankruptcy petition in Manhattan. Listing liabilities of $9,961 and assets of $1,800 (including two Sealyham dogs valued at $200), she blamed her financial distress on a spending spree. Said she: "I guess I was too fond of buying clothes...
...Although Andrew Carnegie Whitfield, whose father is Mrs. Andrew Carnegie's brother, is related to the late great steel tycoon by marriage only, he bears the distinction of being the only close relative, blood or by marriage, to be named after Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie had only one child, Margaret, who married Roswell Miller, civil engineer. They have three daughters, one son, Roswell III. Only other close Carnegie kin still alive are two grandnephews, Carter and Thomas Morrison Carnegie Jr.. sons of Andrew's late brother...
...union money. Just before Hod Carrier Moreschi complained to State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney last fortnight. Hoagland & Allum Vice President Russell W. Brown was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage. The three surviving officers. President George F. Allum, Vice President Olaf Andrew Larsen and Secretary & Treasurer Henry Adolph Engel, went to jail for lack of bail. Few days later the Chicago Stock Exchange took the unprecedented step of advertising "An Open Letter to the Public . . . INVESTIGATE -BEFORE YOU INVEST...