Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...islands. Fire engines and ambulances filled with war workers screeched through Hamilton; the Army rumbled around in "trolleys"-large trucks formerly used for carrying convicts to work; manager of the Mid-Ocean Club, who owned a car for use within the Club's 200-acre estate, dashed happily back & forth with dispatches between St. George and Hamilton, the capital. With the island under decree law, women suffragists revived their old agitation for the ballot and were pleased and surprised when one of Governor General Denis Kirwan Bernard's first decrees gave it to them...
Before the News Building was up, the fight began. The Littick family did not plan to let their Zanesville newspaper monopoly go without a struggle. Publisher of the News is Clark Beach, who retired as executive editor of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette in 1936, was coaxed back to work by Earl Jones. Clark Beach had signed a contract form with a United Pressagent, given him a check for several weeks' service in advance. But the contract was still to be accepted by U. P.'s Manhattan office when the Litticks stepped in and bought U. P. service...
...notice column of the New York Herald Tribune appeared three lines: "I am no longer responsible for any debts incurred by my wife. . . ." It was signed by Franklin Laws Hutton, father of Woolworth Heiress Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, concerned his second wife, Irene Curley Bodde Hutton. Meanwhile, back to the U. S. for a home-made divorce came Daughter Barbara and her son Lance, whose ship companions included legally separated Husband Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and Barbara's rumored choice for a third husband, Robert Sweeny, amateur golfer & investment broker. On the dock Countess Barbara was greeted...
Thirteen years later he paid a visit to the U. S. When he found U. S. audiences could take his music or leave it alone, he went back to Europe for good, settled in Switzerland. As the years passed the U. S. public forgot all about him, musicians thought of him, when they did, as someone who had probably been dead a long time...
...Chicago Woman's Symphony got itself a permanent woman conductor, a husky, blonde Swedish-American from Lindsborg, Kans., named Ebba Sundstrom, and went to work in earnest. But while its concerts swept by with an air of drawing-room dignity, its private meetings and rehearsals seethed with back-bitings, hair pullings. Socialite sponsors quarreled with each other; the women musicians quarreled with Conductress Sundstrom. Several times it looked as if the show could not go on. In 1937, with a deficit of $3,500 on their hands, the orchestra's board of directors elected socialite Mrs. Royden...