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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dropped dead of a heart attack (TIME, April 16, 1934). Last week the new U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, set out for Dublin Castle to present his credentials, not to King George's representative, Governor General Donal Buckley, but to President Eamon de Valera...
...streets behind an escort of Free State cavalry, brilliant in blue and saffron full-dress uniforms with orange plumes in their helmets. At the castle yard a battalion of infantry, in green, saluted him. Officers with drawn swords led him upstairs to St. Patrick's Hall where waited President de Valera. Minister Owsley made a little prepared speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange, rhythmic gurgling and throat-clearing stopped, Minister Owsley...
...little Jose Iturbi. by now accepted as a first-class conductor as well as a brilliant pianist, mounted a podium in the floodlighted Lewisohn Stadium, led the Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals on the hard 25?...
Engaged, Marie Jose ("Josette") Laval. 23, attractive only daughter of French Premier Pierre Laval; and Count Rene Aldebert Pineton de Chambrun, 28. descendant of the Marquis de La Fayette, son of General Count Aldebert de Chambrun and the onetime Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, Ohio...
...market, knows what the public wants. When Faith Baldwin had published 28 books, including a dozen best selling romances about modern business women (The Office Wife, Week-End Marriage, Self-Made Woman, White Collar Girl), she decided that her public might like to read a family saga. Mazo de la Roche had made a phenomenal success with her Jalna books. Last year Faith Baldwin plunged into a set of serious novels tracing the development of a typical middle class family from its U. S. beginning to the present. Partly sober realism, partly sugary sentiment, American Family promptly became the best...