Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They had buried Joe Robinson down in Arkansas just three days before the Democrats of the U. S. Senate met to pick his successor as their leader-highest gift in their power. It was the first time Democrats had gathered for such a purpose since Dec. 4, 1923, when the late great Oscar Wilder Underwood's resignation took effect. Joe Robinson had then been chosen unanimously...
Seeking divorce. Mrs. Helen Newington Wills Moody, eight-time U. S. women's tennis champion, from Frederick Shander Moody Jr., San Francisco goodfellow; in Reno. They were married Dec. 23, 1929. Her statement: "I wouldn't go so far as to say there isn't another man in my life...
...years ago he got $10,000 to start his work, last year he got $200,000 more. Last week when he went back for $150,000 more he was very rudely treated. The celebration he has planned begins Sept. 17, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. On Dec. 7 comes the anniversary of Delaware's ratification, then the anniversaries of the ratifications by other States in order, ending with that of New Hampshire, the ninth State, next June 21.‡ But the celebration will go on to April 30, 1939, the 150th Anniversary of George Washington...
...finest portrait painter, what Artist Vanka calls "the ironic title of Professor" irked him. Abetted by his wife and by No. i U. S. Yugoslav Louis Adamic (The Native's Return)* he came to the U. S. in 1934, gave exhibitions in Pittsburgh and Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Last November he came again for good. Last spring when able Franciscan Father Zagar, having paid off more than half of his $98,000 mortgage, decided to beautify his yellow brick Romanesque church for God's greater pleasure and that of his congregation, he got in touch with Artist...
...named Mary Joan Gibson. She died at the age of twelve days of bleeding at the navel. Her father went to Sing Sing; her mother married Walter Mitchell Schubert in 1936; her grandparents, dropped out of the Social Register, remained at "Tappancroft," their integrity and independence intact (TIME, Dec...