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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although I was born abroad I have been an American citizen for many years and I am entitled to full support in my desperate attempts to further the cause of art and culture in the United States. I have been the first person in this country to give a University course on Living American...
...Senate's No. 1 inquisitor has always been smart, always worked hard at being smart, but until a few years ago was politically nobody. Born in Clay County. Ala., Hugo Black never finished secondary school, never went to college, though in 1906 he was graduated with honors by the University of Alabama's law school. He spent brief periods as a police judge in Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark...
...wide cobalt blue trousers and short-sleeved white shirt with blue bars across the chest, turned up at Cannes dressed exactly like most other swanksters. One of H. R. H.'s entourage of six smoked a corncob pipe labeled "From Missouri." No. 1 Woman remained beauteous Baltimore-born Mrs. Ernest A. Simpson, wife of a complacent Briton (TIME, Sept. 24, March 11). Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson and H. R. H. were vexed by an absurd pamphlet purporting to have been written by her and titled What Charmed the Prince...
...Briton frequently seen by Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George is the new Governor General put forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King...
...Ritz Bar last week smart Paris credited Mme Cecile Sorel, aged warhorse of the Comedie Franchise, and Miss Joan Warner, Pennsylvania-born "Poetess of Naked Rhythm" (TIME, July 22. et seq.), each with a new and magnificent...