Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Litchfield West, 75, oldtime Washington newsman, president of the Gridiron Club (1900), onetime Commissioner of the District of Columbia, all thanks for readable footnotes on Liberia...
...Press Franklin Roosevelt announced that he would sign a bill passed by Congress repealing a law which forbids any bar in the District of Columbia to be erected where its patrons can see the mixing of their drinks. It would, thought the President, be a good idea to let customers see the bottles so that they can be sure Federal tax labels are attached...
...Long Island. There he built a magnificent Georgian mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, a Georgian stable embellished with scrollwork, numerous cottages and barns, a 20-car garage, a power plant. He collected paintings. He kept prize Guernsey cows. He contributed to the Republican Party. He became a director of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and a dozen other companies. He helped support the Field Museum in Chicago. His grandfather's estate, of which he is one of the trustees, spent $4,000,000 building low-cost apartments on Chicago's Blackhawk Street...
Love Me Forever (Columbia) makes it seem probable that the history of grand-opera cinema will not only parallel that of musicomedy in the movies by sticking to one general story but will even copy the same story over & over. As in Grace Moore's preceding picture, One Night of Love, the heroine of Love Me Forever is a struggling opera singer. In this one Miss Moore meets an underworld cabaret owner (Leo Carrillo) who falls in love with her, contrives to get her a job with the Metropolitan Opera, suffers severe pangs until she gives up the notion...
Married. Joan Diehl, 23, daughter of President Ambrose Nevin Diehl of Columbia Steel Co.; and Henry John Heinz II, 26. son of President Howard Heinz of H. J. Heinz Co. ("57 varieties"); in Manhattan...