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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nineteen years ago William F. Gettle left Oklahoma for Bakersfield, Calif, to become manager of a J. C. Penney chain department store. By 1929 hard work and good fortune in Oklahoma and California oil lands rewarded him with enough money to quit the Penney company and move to Beverly Hills, Year ago he bought a five-acre place at Arcadia, 15 mi. outside Los Angeles. He and his invalid wife gave a little house-warming one night last week to christen a new pavilion and swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Snatch Findings | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

Caught in a forged chain of circumstantial evidence, Asther is convicted, sentenced to hang. Because of his wife's grief Kruger relents, tells police they have the wrong man, puts a bullet into his brain. Ably acted and directed, The Crime Doctor is noteworthy for the reptilian restraint with which Criminologist Kruger, without trying to trick his audience, commits his murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...very excellent production. The supporting cast is very good. Loretta Young, as Rothschild's rather superficial daughter, Julie, does a surprisingly good job. Another part that is very well done is that of the elder Rothschild's wife, mother of the five brothers who founded Europe's most powerful chain of banking houses...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/19/1934 | See Source »

...easiest solution would seem to be to bring intercollegiate minor sports back to a sane intramural basis. Too often in the past years has the game been confused with the trophy on the watch chain, or the letter on the chest. Now perhaps is the best time to come back to earth and realize that perhaps sport for its own sake is not an idle dictum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE JAYVEES | 5/11/1934 | See Source »

...executives have been known to wager that not one person out of ten could name A. & P.'s president. "Outside" man for the country's biggest grocery chain, John A. Hartford nonetheless eludes public appearance, is not listed in Poor's Register of Directors. Few housewives know that it was he who launched A. & P.'s first economy store in 1912 on a busy corner in Jersey City and opened 7,500 more in the next 900 days. In Manhattan where he belongs to no clubs, lunches alone at the Biltmore on crackers and milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Apr. 30, 1934 | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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