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...propagandist, to lecture on Communism in his East Orange, N. J. home but the meeting was thwarted by police. In 1918 he converted his home into a hospital for wounded soldiers, cared for 1,000 in three years. Last year in Manhattan, he entertained at a large dinner Nan Britton and her ("The President's") daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company is George Britton Durell who, in the garden of his two-acre home in Cleveland and on his 2,000-acre farm outside of the city, tries out new tools with a skill learned on his father's truck farm. Speaking of the merger, he said: "While no two of the companies manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tool Growth | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...writes Means, "President Harding leaning against the mantel. He looked bewildered." Means carried the unconscious girl to a hospital, where, the inference is, she died. This affair, says Means, led him to knowledge of what Jess Smith called "the President's philandering gaieties"?and the name of Nan Britton, a Marion, Ohio, girl, 30 years Harding's junior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Gangster | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...these orders Means says he went to Chicago, artfully ransacking the girl's sister's apartment until he found Nan Britton's diaries and letters from Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Gangster | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...House scene. Means was next sent to secure Harding presents to the mother and daughter and bring them back to Mrs. Harding, evidence to confront her husband with his alleged infidelity. On Mrs. Harding's order, Means declares he investigated President Harding's capacity as a father and Nan Britton's past life. He reported that a specialist said Harding could have had children, that Nan Britton had had no other known lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Gangster | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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