Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath a pornographic picture of Betty Compton (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932) you write "The Maharajah is interested in reform" and in the article on same page you refer to Colonel Sir Shri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore, and further state that the ex-Mayor of New York, Mr. J. J. Walker, was about to return the visit of the Maharajah. In TIME (Dec. 5) is a cut giving a photograph of the "Maharajah" and his friend...
...self-exiled in Cannes, France, is "in very bad shape. His whole system is disorganized . . . kidneys . . . heart . . . blood pressure. . . . When he left this country his pressure was low. Now it is alarmingly high." Brother James called on the marriage clerk in Cannes, France, with his "inseparable friend," Actress Betty Compton, to get "the necessary information...
...Long Beach, Calif, last week. More & more waited in cheerful queues at the Municipal Building to get building permits. No epidemic had erupted. Two minor shocks did not retard inspection of the city's gas mains, some of which were sprung by the earthquake two weeks before. Compton's main street and six blocks in Long Beach were still roped off, but elsewhere in those towns and throughout the stricken area refugees were returning to their homes as fast as the gas was turned...
...Long Beach, 13 schools were completely demolished. Eleven more were so badly damaged that it was doubtful that they would be rebuilt. The board of education appropriated $260,000 for temporary school buildings. The Compton Junior College and High School were destroyed. In the unincorporated sections of the quake sector. 10 other school buildings were total losses...
...lawyer, was grateful for Mrs. Walker's tactful charge of desertion, not adultery. Worried about cash, Mr. Walker was lazily writing magazine articles with Writer Frank Scully and hobnobbing with Banker Otto Hermann Kahn. He had given up writing an autobiography. He said his friend Betty Compton, with whom he is living, had finished her autobiography which "ought to be a swell book because she sure is one swell woman." Of his wife, who once in vaudeville sang his song, "Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?" and wept in Miami recently when a cabaret...