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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Lawyer Leibowitz's guidance, Louis Greenfield told of dreams he began having which "seemed to tell me, 'If you love Jerry ... let him slip away peacefully in his sleep . . . and he won't be tormented and looked at and yelled at and tortured by doctors." After one fitful, dream-racked night, Greenfield sent his wife to the shop, did the deed...
...self-effacing Farley boomlet began last month with a speech by him at Lynchburg, Va., home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in Albany, Jim Farley's friends moved to tie up for him the New York delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention...
SHANGHAI. Friday--Police aided by U.S. Marines and British in infantrymen today began a house-to-house search of the Angic-American area of the International Settlement to round up suspected Chinese Nationalist terrorists...
...musical literature--the medieval music of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance. American musicology, in the person of Carleton Sprague Smith, is making an attempt to revive another little known type of church music, the psalm tunes of early America. In his lecture at Paine Hall last Friday he began a discussion of the 17th Century Calvinist setting of these psalms. Mr. Smith, who is by no means a stuffy musical archaeologist, is as amusing as he is instructive. Next Friday he will continue his plea for the return of this charming music to the position which it lost...
...Vancouver. At this juncture Mrs. Frost made the only romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's go to England and live under thatch." Frost sold his farm and the family sailed for England in September 1912. There, in a thatched cottage in Beaconsfield, he began to associate with literary professionals (Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas). In England he published his first book of poems, A Boy's Will...