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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Aug. 23 reviewing "Souls at Sea," your critic said Olympe Bradna was "picturesquely born of two bareback riders between performances at the Olympe Theatre in Paris...
Married. Louise Hovick (Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee); to Robert Mizzy; in Santa Ana, Calif. They had already been married at sea (TIME, Aug. 23). The second ceremony was to satisfy California...
...Surbaya zoo has long had with the San Diego, Calif, zoo friendly give-&-take relations similar to those which the Antwerp zoo has with the New York Zoological Park (TIME, Aug. 16). They trade rare specimens. The anoas certainly were rare; only four have ever been in the U. S. So the Surbaya zoo promptly put their anoas, accompanied by an old keeper named Topas Tenney, on board the Dutch liner Manoeran and packed them off to the U. S. The anoas traveled well. Every day they had their regular diet of hay and grain, same as any other...
California had not long to wait last week for the first use of its new law permitting peremptory challenge of the judge assigned to try a case (TIME, Aug. 30). Grey-topped, crotchety, bushy-eyebrowed Superior Judge Frank H. Dunne, 67, one of the old-timers on San Francisco's bench, had just opened court with the case of Howe v. Howe, an action to set aside a property settlement on a wife. Up popped noisy Lawyer Jacob Wilbur ("Jake") Ehrlich, 37, who once successfully defended Alexander Pantages against a rape charge. Said he, "Your Honor, it gives...
...milestone in Federal Reserve history was passed last week. Following the example of the Reserve Banks of Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Richmond, which cut their rediscount rates from 2% to 1½% (TIME, Aug. 30), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week cut its rate from 1½% to 1%. This is the lowest fee for loans to member banks ever posted by any central bank in the world. Sample rates in Europe today: Bank of France and Reichsbank. 4%; Bank of England and Bank of The Netherlands. 2% ; Swiss National Bank, 1½%. Lowest previous rate...