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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, Conn., Policeman Michael F. Hally stopped Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for passing a red light in her automobile. Said she: ''I was watching the street car in front of me." Said he: "You wasn't watchin' nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1936 | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Engaged. Miles Poindexter, 68, one-time (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, onetime (1923-28) Ambassador to Peru; and Mrs. Elinor Jackson Junkin Latane, widow of History Professor John Holladay Latane of Johns Hopkins University; in Hartford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...Treasury announced that, "not because of his circus but because of his philanthropic and civic contributions" to the city, the profile of the late, great Phineas Taylor ("P. T.") Barnum would appear on 25,000 U. S. half-dollars commemorating the Centennial of Bridgeport, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Died. Horace Bushnell Cheney, 68, of the South Manchester (Conn.) silk family, longtime chief Silk Association lobbyist; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...pinked the wife of the British vice consul in the arm. Cruising off Gijon, the yacht Blue Shadow was shelled by a Spanish rebel warship which killed its British owner Captain Rupert Savile and wounded his wife, whose U. S. passport described her as Eloise Drake of Norwich, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Moors to Lusitania | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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