Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 29, formerly Divorcée Mayme Cook Masters; from Thomas Fortune Ryan II, 38, grandson of the late financier, who in 1931 was disinherited by his father for marrying her after a brief courtship on a Wyoming dude ranch; charging "intolerable indignities, desertion, and failure to support," asking alimony and division of property; in Cheyenne, Wyo. Four months after they were married, Heir Ryan declared: "I would rather have my little wife than all my father's millions...
Same day Endeavour II arrived at Gosport. Partner Sopwith boarded her in brief, for Captain Williams, his friend and skipper for a decade, had died on board of a gastric hemorrhage...
...same time rated No. 1 in radio popularity. He specializes in lush, full-blown arrangements of popular and semiclassical numbers and this week on his radio half-hour for Chesterfield cigarets (WABC), he prepared to launch what his sponsors declare is a new musical style, presenting brief, "streamlined" versions of symphonic works...
...since 1932 has been Sterling Professor of Law at Yale. On leave from that top-notch teaching berth since 1934 to assist the SEC, he has been a commissioner since January 1936. Upon his election to chairman by his fellow commissioners last week he hustled to Washington for a brief conference, then hustled back to his vacation home near Chatham on Cape Cod to rusticate until this week when he will actually take...
Except for its duller opening chapters, covering Jackson's brief retirement at the age of 55, Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President matches the calibre of the first volume. Once Andrew Jackson is launched on the campaign that made him seventh U. S. President, Author James is pleasantly at home with a career which translated into politics "Old Hickory's" roaring virtues as an Indian and British fighter, frontier gallant, gambler, duelist. Apart from its fresh portraiture of Jackson, the book offers a well-lighted view of the background events which provided the dress rehearsal for the Civil...