Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...residence at Goshen, N. Y., and, being refused admittance, "did then and there willfully create a shameful disturbance ... by trespassing ... in his stocking feet . . . to the scandal and disgrace of the military service"; 3, 4, 5, 6) was otherwise guilty in his cups of conduct unbecoming an officer & gentleman. Author of these charges was a reserve lieutenant named James O. Smith Jr., who was Colonel Giffin's adjutant in 1936 and 1937, when they were assigned to CCC duty in upstate New York. Maximum penalty was dismissal, disgrace, loss of a $3,000 annual pension for Colonel Giffin...
...packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy, bespectacled author of Lights of Singapore, hastily called in British journalists, handed them a cable just received from the Sultan: I HAVE NEVER SUGGESTED MARRYING MISS HILL STOP ANY SUGGESTION OF POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS IS A LIE STOP ANY SUGGESTION OF MY NOT FAITHFULLY CARRYING OUT ALL AGREEMENTS WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT...
Died. Jack Judge, 60, onetime fishmonger and vaudeville trouper, author of It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, best-known marching song of the World War; of meningitis; in Birmingham, England. On New Year's Day 1912, Judge bet a friend he could write a song before nightfall, sing it successfully and publicly that evening. He won with Tipperary...
...sewing machines, printing and bookbinding machinery, office appliances, agricultural implements and aircraft. One out of ten of all American-made automobiles normally goes abroad. . . . Likewise, substantial quantities of our petroleum products, foodstuffs, wood-pulp and copper-to mention only a few items-are produced for the foreign market. . . ." Author of this exposition is ruddy President Warren Lee Pierson of the Export-Import Bank of Washington, official guardian and nursemaid of this enormous trade. Last week his bank made one loan, was at work on another, which heralded a new spurt in efforts to help the U. S. exporter cultivate...
...seemed sure to be supplanted. Crowding both was Nordhoff & Hall's The Dark River, called by booksellers a "one-month" bestseller. Possibly Kenneth Roberts' Trending Into Maine should be considered in the same category. At any rate. success in Pittsburgh and Boston made Author Roberts the only U. S. author of the year to have two books on best-seller lists...