Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where, by the way, did Mr. De Varon for his article, "And Now the Poor Farmer" discover "this strange and slithy credit system"? Our experts in Money and Banking have confessed themselves unfamiliar with this mechanism. Professor Haring's thesis would seem to be that the Vargas regime is not fascist but is simply an "old-fashioned South American dictatorship...
...Panama, he saw a "dare-devil," acting on a wager, light his cigar from a candle on the high altar of the Cathedral Church of San Juan de Dios, while 50 priests were conducting mass before 3,000 communicants. The sacrilege precipitated riots in which many persons were killed...
Married. Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, to Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower; in Manhattan's City Court; Raffray's former wife last month married Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, whose former wife six months ago married the Duke of Windsor...
...thrilling. To increase the knowledge of skiing and make it a little less dangerous for the untrained or badly trained 75% of U. S. skiers, whose numbers are increasing 100% each year, the National Ski Association last week took steps. The association, a member of the Federation Internationale de Ski, believes that U. S. skiing has reached the point where only teachers of proven qualifications should give skiing instruction, as is the custom in Europe. To gain this approval, plus a handsome diploma, potential U. S. Ski-meisters journeyed to Bolton, Vt. to be inspected by Otto Eugen Schniebs, head...
...report in the class on retail distribution, to Eaton W. Ballard, of Seattle, Washington; A. Shuman scholarship, for the second year student who achieved the best record in his first full year at the school, went to William T. Rhame, of Wyoming, Ohio; and a special scholarship to Edward de Jongh, 1GB, of Brooklyn, New York...