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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ireland, in Florida, in New York. Mrs. Croker soon developed a passion for litigation, before long was involved in an incredibly complicated tangle of lawsuits. Under the hands of lawyers the vast estate-during Florida boom years the waterfront property was valued at $10,000,000-withered. Pressed for cash, she mortgaged the prodigious Wigwam as well as her Irish castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Widow's Wigwam | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Long Ears Equal Wisdom? Second only to the paradox that Japanese should restore Peking's name last week is the paradox that the Japanese military Com-mander-in-Chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, was an intimate friend and cash contributor to the fortunes of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the late Father of the Chinese Revolution who is revered as a Saint at Nanking, the Chinese Capital. Long ears, characteristic of all Japanese statues of the divine Buddha, are considered to indicate wisdom in the Orient. Last week the Shanghai correspondents of the New York and the London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Again Liberty Bonds | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...saying before I was so rudely interrupted. "Coach Harlow, of Harvard, was kind enough to say that this touchdown run shouldn't be called dumb luck. He said I had the presence of mind to cash in on the break. Thanks Dick, but how could I miss...

Author: By John J. Reldy jr., | Title: Kelley Continues Modestly As Ever In Second Episode | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...last week by the new impresarios: his rangy, longtime arena director, Everett Colburn, and boyish Harry Knight, a onetime bronco-rider and son-in-law of Cowboy Tom Mix. A third, also in the parade, was an Arizona cattleman named Mark Clemens, who had put up the cash to buy Promoter Johnson's string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named Hell's Angel. So vicious that in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Broadway Rodeo | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...took a Radcliffe to establish the high mark, and she not the pace eight years ago. Her dividend check was for the tidy sum of $1,200, showing that she had bought at least $12,000 in cash purchases. "She bought some of practically everything," Cole stated, "but she specialized in collecting rare books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER 12,000 RECEIVE DIVIDENDS FROM COOP | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

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