Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tortuous Trail- Noon of Dec. 13, 1934 two Wall Street runners barged into Manhattan's United States Trust Co., delivered $590,000 in 14 U. S. Treasury notes. A bank clerk drew them into his window, went off to obtain the securities the notes were to purchase. When the clerk returned to his cage three minutes later, the notes had vanished. Manhattan police were hopelessly baffled...
Nothing less than a British cruiser would do to carry from China to England last winter 21,000 items of Imperial Manchu art lent by the Chinese Government to the British Government for a great exhibition in London's Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). To return this priceless treasure, after it had been viewed by 422,048 persons, His Majesty's Government thriftily decided to use an ordinary steamship, the Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura, with a relay of naval escorts...
...Philadelphia Special: Harpists Edna Phillips and Marjorie Tyre; Cellist Elsa Hilger who popped into the news four months ago when she discovered her stolen Guarnerius in the arms of an innocent deskmate who had borrowed it from a dealer who had unwittingly bought it from a thief (TIME, Dec. 23). No musician but a competent masseuse is pretty, blonde Miss Rondum, taken along by Stokowski to give him daily rubs...
...American Airways. The award includes the title of ''World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents in more than two decades of flying...
...time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard (TIME, Dec. 16). In court last week Dr. Pitzman suddenly confessed what had long been suspected: that he had been redheaded Mrs. Muench's lover, that she had persuaded him that the "Gift of God" baby was theirs. It had cost him $16,000, said Dr. Pitzman. "Your Honor!" cried Dr. Muench...