Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those connected with the cinema. Feeble as a detective, he frequently mislays his glasses, gets his wife to find them for him. To look Chinese, he pulls his mustache down at the''sides, tapes his eyebrows, cuts his hair back on his forehead. Because he maintains a copper-colored sunburn, he needs little grease paint. He lives at Carpinteria, Calif., 65 miles from Hollywood, likes dabbling with oil paints, owns a six-year-old Schnauzer named Greta who, attended by a trained nurse and Warner Gland's personal physician, last week whelped eight puppies...
...Bridge admitted on the stand last week that he had received since that time more than $50,000 from Miss Frick, but maintained that this money was due him for a block of Cerro de Pasco copper stock held in his name by the elder Frick. Never once did Defendant Frick appear in court. Newshawks were not surprised, for no rich woman has ever fought publicity so long or so successfully. Blonde, thin, freckled and 44, Helen Clay Frick inherited her father's executive ability...
...ability to keep the belga on gold, Premier Georges Theunis last week went to work. In few countries have Government expenses been pared so sharply as in Belgium. Yet last week Elder Statesman Theunis, backed by two of Belgium's richest men. Minister Without Portfolio Emile Francqui (banks, copper) and Finance Minister Camille Gutt (Katanga Copper), pared 5% more off Government pensions and salaries, 50%, off rent allowances, a big slice off relief allowances to the provinces...
Died. George Wylie Paul ("Old Roman") Hunt, 75. seven times Governor of Arizona, onetime (1920-21) Minister to Siam; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Phoenix, Ariz. A onetime copper mine mucker, he served 14 years in Arizona's Territorial Legislature before he was chosen president of its constitutional convention, then in 1912, first Governor of the new State. He served more terms as Governor of a state than any other man in U. S. history...
...effect as a result of injuries and near injuries which kept the residents of Wigglesworth in a state of continuous terror last winter. The steam outlets have been made through the roof by removing the slate, drilling until steam was struck in the maze of attic pipes, connecting the copper tube, and covering the hole in the roof again...