Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Israel Harding Noe of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, whose wife sued him for di-vorce last February because he believes that "the only Christian standard of birth control is self control" (TIME, May n). Last week Memphis was given another sympathetic, curious peep into his private life, his checkbook and his house in the Cathedral's shadow. Mrs. Noe's amended charges included cruelty, extravagance and desertion as well as coldness. In an amended answer to her bill, Dean Noe replied in great detail. He had not been cruel, nor, as she charged, had he accused her of being...
...money. For the past ten years dealers have been delicately led to understand that for a sufficient price, the Dreyfus collection was for sale. There was no lack of offers, but the Dreyfus family were not to be rushed into a sale. Only last week, before the potent checkbook of suave Sir Joseph Duveen, did the Dreyfuses capitulate. Other dealers wagered that if he did not pay the appraised price of $6,000,000 he paid something very close...