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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...
...year's low of 52% (Aug. 10) and 90% last year at this time. Unfortunate last week was a roseate report by Dow-Jones that U. S. Steel's opera tions had risen to 66%. Quickly the Steel Corporation refuted this, said operations were unchanged at 63%. Scotsmen. Said the leader of the Aber deen, Scotland, Chamber of Commerce, of which 35 members are touring the U. S.: "If you want to see a good depression just come to Scotland; it's chronic over there...
Ponies. To finance their U. S. visit, the four brother-poloists Ashton of Australia (TIME, Aug. 18) last week sold 25 of their ponies in less than one hour at auction in East Williston, L. I. Total receipts: $77,600. High price...
...Steam Packet group of shipping companies, to which Lamport & Holt belongs, has given many a shock already and last week's receivership merely meant that the management has started a reorganization. Shipping men foresaw some such development when Lamport & Holt withdrew their South American passenger service recently (TIME, Aug...
...Editor. Waldo David Frank celebrated his forty-first birthday Aug. 25 by making more plans for presenting South American literature to the U. S. in small doses. Ten or more books of which this is the first, are to appear and bring the best from Brazil, Peru, Chile, and others, culled by him, edited by him. Since leaving Yale in 1911 with B.A., M.A. and Phi Beta Kappa key, he has applied his erratic literary ability to many matters. With the publication of Virgin Spain in 1926 his name as a Spanish authority was made, his interest in things Spanish...