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...days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence: 2) Canadian-born, he had never been naturalized a citizen...
...George Lansbury, Laborite Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, had a perfect opening to attack his Majesty's Government as perjured hypocrites, but instead he endorsed their wisdom, obvious apparently to all Great Britons except that Canadian-born Press Tycoon Baron Beaverbrook. Unheeded, his Daily Express roared, "This is what comes of meddling in a quarrel that is not ours! ... By sending in British troops we lay ourselves open to the eventual criticism of both France and Germany. . . . We are like the fool who interferes in another family's dispute...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis (Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics); from Thomas J. Lewis, 15 years her husband, twelve years manager of the wholesale division of Elizabeth Arden, Inc.; in Augusta, Me. Said Canadian-born Mrs. Lewis, who owns 20 beauty parlors throughout the land, races a string of horses: "My pride in the business, my idealism, caused the trouble between us. ... I found I was out on a limb, so I had to cut the limb...
Died. Marie Dressier (Leila Koerber), 64, cinemactress; of uremia complicated by cancer; in Santa Barbara. Canadian-born, she went on the stage when she was 5, played a profusion of light roles climaxed in 1910 by the lead in Tittle's 'Nightmare in which she sang "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl." Thereafter she appeared in cinemas with Charlie Chaplin (Tillie's Punctured Romance, Tillie's Tomato Surprise). After the War she found herself unable to get engagements, tried futilely to make money in Florida real estate. When she was 60, almost penniless, she scored an overnight hit as "Marthy...
Died. Charles Courtney Julian, oil promoter, wanted in Oklahoma City on a charge of defrauding investors of $3,500,000; by his own hand (poison); in Shanghai. Canadian-born Promoter Julian won & lost a real estate fortune in California where later he formed Julian Petroleum Corp., a $40,000,000 producing and marketing organization. He left it shortly before it collapsed, formed a similar company in Oklahoma. When Oklahoma courts investigated him, he jumped a $25,000 bail bond, exiled himself in China where he died penniless...