Word: claus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inheritor last January of $1,000,000, most of which "slipped through my fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
...stabilize internal coffee prices and lower world prices. As recently as last fortnight Fernando Costa, rich Sao Paulo planter who is currently president of D. N. C. declared that D. N. C.'s crop control would continue. Last week, however, the Brazilian Government tired of playing Santa Claus, announced not only that production will no longer be limited but that the Brazilian coffee export tax will be cut some 75%. Said Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa: "It would be neither possible nor just that on Brazil only should fall the entire weight of its policy favoring...
Dartmouth is good; they must be good. In light of which, humorous is the attempt of the Dartmouth Athletic News Weekly to build its team up as an underdog. Making the opponent over confident is wise policy, but Santa Claus didn't have a beard when this last workout (we quote...
Judging by the pranks of its pastors, Philadelphia is the most exhilarating vineyard in which a U. S. man of God may labor. There, Rev. Zed Copp, Presbyterian, crusades hotly against Santa Claus, Easter bunnies and the Stork, while spending his spare time transcribing...
...there was no necessity to fix one more onerous law on railroads, that they were glad to do of their own free will what the bill proposed. The subcommittee's Chairman Alfred L. Bulwinkle of North Carolina and his colleagues were inclined to agree with him. Then Dr. Claus and Rex walked in. Eloquently the young engineer told of the months of training which he and Rex had undergone together at the famed Seeing Eye institute in Morristown, N. J. Most railroads, he conceded, had indeed been willing to let him and Rex travel together, but one had forced...