Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the U. S. it is generally accepted that great hostelries harbor public characters for something less than the usual rate be cause of their advertising value. Under such an arrangement Calvin Coolidge lived at the New Willard in Washington when Vice President ; under such arrangement, Vice President Curtis lives...
Sued for Divorce. George Randolph ("Fanny") Hearst, publisher of his father's San Francisco Examiner; by Blanche Wilbur Hearst (no kin of Curtis Dwight & Ray Lyman Wilbur); in Los Angeles. Charge: desertion.
Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax.
By 6 p.m. newspapermen had been hurriedly summoned from Trenton and Hopewell for the official announcement in the Lindbergh garage. The discovery made hushed after-dinner talk for most U.S. citizens, but the child's father did not learn about it until nine hours after the body was found. It...
When John Hughes Curtis began to tell his tale of mysterious boat trips and constant failures to bring Col. Lindbergh into contact with the men he said were in possession of the child, Col. Schwarzkopf lent a polite, attentive ear. Mr. Curtis described and gave the approximate position of the...