Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday, Dec. 22, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, with his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh and their 3-year-old son Jon, sailed furtively out of New York Harbor toward Europe aboard the S. S. American Importer. On that slender foundation of fact the U. S. Press last week reared as enormous a fabric of conjecture, rumor, implication and denunciation as has been built in nearly two thousand years on the 67-word story of the Flight into Egypt.* News of the Lindbergh flight broke in the final Monday edition of the New York Times, on the streets...
...diminished. Then came two deciding events. Last month New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman caused a fresh Press furor over Murderer Hauptmann by paying a midnight visit to his death cell, publicly reviving old doubts that the German carpenter was solely responsible for the Hopewell crime (TIME, Dec. 23). Promptly threats against Jon Lindbergh took on new volume and violence. Meantime the Lindberghs were thoroughly alarmed by an incident in Englewood. As Jon was being motored to his nursery school a large automobile sped up, forced the Lindbergh car to the curb. Strange men leaped out, thrust cameras...
Banned from Radio after Jan. 1 are hundreds of songs controlled by Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. which lately parted company with the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (TIME, Dec. 9). Missed most by radio addicts will be such long-familiar theme songs as Smiles (Ipana Tooth Paste), Memory Lane (Firestone Tires), When Hearts Are Young (Studebaker Automobile), Rhapsody in Blue (Woodbury Soap). California Here I Come (Bayer Aspirin...
...daughter of Washington Attorney Joseph Edward Davies; in Washington, D. C., at the home of her mother. Absent from the wedding was Father Davies, honeymooning aboard the yacht of his second wife, the onetime Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton, whom he had married twelve days before in Manhattan (TIME, Dec...
...Friday, Dec. 13, 13 bright yellow vehicles lined up on a Chicago street. Heading the procession was a sedan "scout car," followed by five huge trailers, each pulled by a different kind of actor truck. A second sedan, pulling a mall trailer, brought up the rear. At the heel of the first truck was a stocky young-looking man in a state of high excitement. Truckman John Louis Keeshin 'as excited because as president of Keelin Transcontinental Freight Lines, which in the past few months has spread its operations all over the East (TIME, Sept. 2), he was leading...