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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frances Crane Leatherbee, of the Chicago plumbing Cranes. Her father, onetime Minister to China, was a potent backer of Father MasaRyk; her brother, Richard Teller Crane 2nd. was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. The Jan Masaryks are now divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA: We Are Tough | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Myers) is 44 years old, and looks it. In a way this is a compliment, for most farces of 44 look twice their age. In Wilde's long stage joke of what happens when one young man invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre, though for sustained comic dialogue he cannot hold a candle to Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Augustus Cobb, a New York lawyer, graduated from the Law School in 1872, and when he died in 1930, he left his entire estate in trust for the benefit of his brother, Edward Benedict Cobb. The brother, as life tenant of the estate, had the benefit of it until his death, which occurred last Thanksgiving Day, and the Augustus Cobb estate was then divided into two parts, one going to six New York charities, and the other to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Asks Attack On Secondary School Problems | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Nathaniel II, brother of Richard IV, graduated in 1766, and was also a justice of the peace in Haverhill. His son became Leverett I, Class of 1802, and with him begins the glory of the Leveretts. He became Mayor of Salem, Speaker of the House, president of the Senate, and a member of Congress. Leverett II, 1844, was a Democratic Civil Service Commissioner in Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saltonstall Name Appears in First Directory and in Latest | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

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