Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four, Primo Camera in six. Only the clock and calendar, say experts, separate him from the heavyweight championship, since he is scheduled to fight Braddock next September. Meantime he and his managers, a pair of dusky financiers from Detroit and Chicago, plan to eliminate Isadoro Gastanaga in Havana Dec. 29, Charley Retzlaff in Chicago the following month, one-time Champion Max Schmeling in New York City in June. A routine incident in this schedule included the elimination of Paulino Uzcudun at Madison Square Garden last week...
...World air records are established under the rules of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. By the rules compiled Dec. 31, 1934, records are awarded to Airplanes. Seaplanes, Amphibions. Balloons. Airships, Gliders, Auto-giros, Helicopters, Airplanes piloted by women, Seaplanes piloted by women. Most of these broad groups are subdivided into classes by size and by pay load. Each class may then achieve such records as maximum speed, speed for certain distances, airline distance, broken line distance, altitude, duration, circuit of the world. At present there are 254 possible records, of which only 123 are established...
Another explanation for Mr. Hutton's resignation might have been that as an anti-New Deal publicist he was sometimes misunderstood. His suggestion that Big Business "gang up" was interpreted as a bald plan to gang Franklin D. Roosevelt (TIME, Dec. 2). Though his sentiments were personal, the name Hutton has been linked to General Foods since he became chairman in 1923 and as a goodwill asset has lately shrunk in value...
...affairs had to be reshuffled for the marriage. Mrs. Emlen Knight Davies divorced him last autumn after 33 years of married life. At the same time Mr. Davies' eldest daughter divorced her husband, Thomas P. Cheeseborough Jr. Thereupon Mrs. Cheeseborough became engaged to Senator Millard Tydings (TIME, Dec. 16). Thus for a step-mother-in-law the able senior Senator from Maryland will have Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies...
Last fortnight the Securities & Exchange Commission released figures showing that 89 executives of General Motors, each receiving at least $20,000 a year, made nearly $3,000,000 in 1934 (TIME, Dec...