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Thousands of U. S. citizens claim an interest in the estate of a German-born surveyor named Jacob Baker who settled in Pennsylvania in 1765. Ruling version of the Baker saga is that Surveyor Baker, granted land in Philadelphia, leased it back for 100 years to the U. S. Government. Upon the land the Government built the Philadelphia Navy yards, post office, mint...
...true, Premier Flandin emphasized, that the new French conscription decree, cited by Realmleader Hitler as though it would largely increase France's fighting effectives, will have any such effect. The decree, as everyone had opportunity to find out months ago, was issued because the number of French males born during the War years was abnormally low. Today these "War babies" are ready for battle, but in numbers so reduced that the groups coming up for compulsory military training for the next few years would not suffice to keep the French Army at its current peacetime strength. Therefore, during what...
...personable a singer as his most serious Hollywood rival, Lawrence Tibbett, Nelson Eddy arrived in cinema by an even more circuitous route. Born in Providence, R. I., the son of a manufacturer of equipment for submarines, he made his debut as a soprano in the choir of Grace Church. After a grammar & night-school education, he went to work, first as a telephone operator in an iron works factory, later in the art department of the Philadelphia Press, stayed with that paper, the Evening Ledger and Bulletin for five years as reporter and copyreader. Later he took to writing advertising...
...York Athletic Club, Eastern College teams are usually the best. The New York Athletic Club's water polo teams are coached by the most famed water poloist in history, Joe Ruddy Sr. His three sons, Ray, Don and Joe Jr. are currently the team's mainstay. Born and brought up in New York, Joe Ruddy Sr. won his first swimming race when he was 14, at the Chicago World's Fair. Thirteen years later, when he had had time to master water polo and 25 other sports, Joe Ruddy married a champion swimmer named Mary Veronica Donahue...
...Nominated to succeed U. S.-born Leon Fraser as president of the Bank for International Settlements, rallying point for sound money, was Dutch-born Dr. Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, president of the Netherlands Bank, firm believer in the gold standard...