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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, Lord Devonport, 78, "first grocer to become a peer," head of International (chain) Stores, Britain's onetime War Food Controller; at Dunkald, Scotland...
...trap the "Wall Street gamblers" who were selling Piggly Wiggly short. No sooner had he skyrocketed his stock from $40 to $150 than the Exchange discovered his corner, barred Piggly Wiggly, ruined Speculator Saunders. With $2,900 borrowed from an old employe, he built a second fortune on a chain of 250 Clarence Saunders Stores, lost stores and fortune in 1930. Month ago a stranger approached him, said that he was Armgaard Karl Graves, Wartime spy of the German Secret Service and author of Secrets of the Hohenzollerns, that he and friends had buried $3,000,000 in gold...
...DeMille technique is as peculiar as his ideology. He is almost the only director in Hollywood who still uses a megaphone. Bald, ruddy-faced, he wears riding breeches and puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of the camera. Visitors are welcome on a DeMille set. He enjoys giving tirades for their benefit. During Cleopatra, he noticed an extra wearing a belt that was historically incorrect. Standing in front of his microphone, he bawled to his secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded...
...John Kennedy, 5½, one day met a nice old priest. He admired the priest's pretty hat, his shiny jewelry. Could he play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more blessed than that which is touched by a child...
...probably the privatest citizen you ever saw," announced California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo as he sailed from Manhattan to find some "excitement" in Europe. ". . . There is no excitement in Congress. It's just work. Congress is a chain gang." A fellow passenger came up and slapped him on the back. "Who's that man?" demanded Senator McAdoo as the other walked off. "It's a good thing I didn't meet him when I had my carbuncle...