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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wayne Chatfield. When Wayne Chatfield died he left his money to his grandnephew, the Assistant Secretary's father, Hobart Chatfield Taylor, on condition that the legatee add Chatfield to his last name. Hobart Chatfield Taylor thereupon became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, distinguishing himself by writing books (The Idle Born, Fame's Pathway), collecting a large number of decorations from foreign governments, and becoming the butt of some of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team...
...first son born to Daniel Howell, Warrenton, Ga. blacksmith, was killed in the Civil War. Last week Blacksmith Howell's 22nd child was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Atlanta for misusing WPA funds. And Blacksmith Howell's 23rd and last offspring declared that the charge marked the beginning of a New Deal "reign of terror" in Georgia...
...Pursuit of Happiness alive for 250 performances. Before Miss Conklin had perfected her technique of being winsome, dumb and sexy all at the same time, she hoofed obscurely in the choruses of several musicals, played in half a dozen inferior legitimate shows without exciting much remark. She was born 26 years ago in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. Last summer she married a Wall Streeter named James Daniel Thompson. Less attractive on the screen than behind footlights, she appeared in The President Vanishes and One-Way Ticket. Champagne is her favorite drink. She plays ping-pong and tennis, likes sail boats...
...quarts and 1,750 lb. of butter.* Daisy was milked four times every 24 hours by Carnation's able cowhand, Carl Gockrell, who also milked the former world's champion milk producer in 1920 when the old record was set. To that cow Carnation erected a statue. Born nine years ago, Daisy was sired by Carnation's Matador Segis Ormsby, rated the greatest bull that ever lived. Twenty-seven daughters have each tested better than 19,000 Ib. of milk and 700 Ib. of butterfat. Five have topped 30,000 Ib. of milk, and seven have records...
...melon for U. S. farm-product processors. By last week many a processors' customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing and wasting" any of their refunded tax. Plaintiff Reiskind, a lawyer, conceded that a prorata rebate to all consumers would be impossible, thought that...