Word: ar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years at Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin where she was known as Mrs. Paul Bern. She had received $250 a month from Bern. On the day following Bern's suicide Dorothy Millette left the Plaza Hotel, boarded the river-steamer Delta King for Sacramento. When the ship ar rived Dorothy Millette was not on board. Her cabin was empty. Her coat and shoes were on deck. Near them was a bag which might have concealed a bathing suit. Police busied themselves with dragging the river. . . . Few days later San Francisco police found another bag, left behind by Miss...
Lawyer Paul Vories McNutt, 1928 commander, is the Democratic candidate for Governor in Indiana this year. Realtor Ossee Lee Bodenhamer, 1929 commander, was badly beaten last month by Mrs! Hattie Caraway for the Senate in Ar kansas...
...Long Island home of smart, slim Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Utilities Corp., leisurely thieves took four prized paintings, frames and all. Among them: a Gainsborough, a Watteau, a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a landscape by Richard Wilson, valued to gether at about $50,000. Detectives ar rested a butler and cook recently dis charged by the Odiums, recovered the paintings...
Died. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, 70, chairman of the corporation and one-time (1923-30) president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, originator and one time (1901-23) director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards; of coronary occlusion (constriction of the heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped...
...High citizenship expectancy" is a quality which, so f ar as it could be gauged by competitive tests, distinguished four 9th grade schoolboys who last month were awarded the first Emily Jane Culver Scholarships given by Culver Military Academy at Culver, Ind. These four, who are in the upper third of their classes, "emotionally stable and in good health, possessed of ambition and a settled purpose in life," are George R. Koons, 14, of Chicago, Guy Barry, 15, of Portage, Mich., Robert Ernst Carroll, 14, of Fall River, Mass, and Campbell Gould, of Toledo. Unable otherwise to attend Culver...