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Last week the most devotedly Francophile U. S. Ambassador to France since Myron Herrick, did his verbal best at telling the dictatorial enemies of France where to get off. At a George Washington's Birthday dinner at the American Club in Paris, attended by the Duke of Windsor and such top-notch French bigwigs as Premier Daladier, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin, Mr. Bullitt replied to German and Italian press charges that the U. S. was trying to start a war. With intentional and significant emphasis the Ambassador said...
Alton, Ill.'s Robert Wadlow, tallest man in medical history (TIME, March 9, 1936), celebrated his 21st birthday by giving out interviews, going to a party some friends gave in his honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...
...revolution in St. Petersburg, married him few years later when they had both been exiled to Siberia. She took an active part in politics even after her husband's death, was admired by Stalin although she sometimes criticized his policies. Day before she died she celebrated her 70th birthday, received a hearty message from the Party's Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars, wishing her "good health and many more years of fruitful work...
Charles Goodyear never visited Akron. His invention arrived there in 1869, eleven years after his death. That year, Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich founded the city's first rubber company, choosing the town because the Ohio & Erie Canal afforded cheap transportation. Goodrich celebrated its 70th birthday last week by announcing a 1938 net of $2,240,119 after a 1937 loss of $878,580. Surpassing it in size are three younger competitors-Firestone Tire & Rubber, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Goodyear, now the industry's biggest (with 1938 profit of $6,012,423 on net sales...
Washington's Birthday in the Square was disturbed by inquires yesterday, but the important question was not "Who chopped down the cherry tree?" but "Who put the bomb on the stair-way in 1286 Massachusetts Avenue...