Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irate members of my family in Albany have just drawn my attention to your review (TIME, Dec. 13) of Victoria Sackville-West's Pepita. . . . Your reviewer refers to my grandfather as the ''bachelor President Arthur...
Damsel in Distress (Fred Astaire, Gracie Allen, George Burns; TIME, Dec...
...seasoned soul-winner at 25 is Rev. Uldine Utley, a dozen years ago the protegee of Manhattan's late, reforming Baptist John Roach Straton, and for the past two years a Methodist minister in good standing (TIME, Dec. 30, 1935). Small, blonde and decidedly the most comely of U. S. divines, Miss Utley has been called by newspapers the "Garbo of the Pulpit" and the "Terror of the Tabernacles"; by Dr. Straton the "Joan of Arc of the modern religious world." This reverend miss once declared: "If I were a man, I'd never marry a woman preacher...
...Hutton & Co. partners played no part in the Checker Cab trading. Simultaneously, however, Gerald Loeb and Gordon Crary did considerable trading of Auburn for clients. According to SEC, the pair, through Floor Trader H. Terry Morrison, effected enough artful Auburn deals to raise the price from $38 on Dec. 24, to $54.25 on March 5, 1936. SEC claims that this was done by such oldtime pool methods as buying heavily at the close, issuing extravagant statements, using discretionary accounts to create an artificial demand. Reason for raising the price, implied SEC, was that Cord Corp. had underwritten some...
...State Department almost certainly established the identity of Mr. & Mrs. Donald L, Robinson, who recently disappeared in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 27), as a Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Arnold Rubens; further clarified the case by disclosing that New York's luckless County Clerk Albert Marinelli, who resigned from office month ago in the face of charges that members of his staff were ex-convicts, had issued the passports as a special kindness to a Mr. A, who had forwarded the applications as a political favor to a Mr. B, who obliged a Mr. C who had wanted to help...