Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embattled stand against the labor provision of the Street Code, Chairman Weir was also glad last week when Secretary Ickes approved a contract of $47,402.89 let to National's subsidary Weirton by New York Central R. R. for spikes and tie plates. Pending in a Wilmington, Del. Federal court is the Government's action against Weirton for violation of the labor section of the National Industrial Recovery...
...whom Villa loves. Villa borrows $7 from Sykes and starts for Mexico City with five friends and a hangover. This time he fights without regard for niceties. Prisoners of war he ties together and shoots down in lots of three, to save bullets. He administers a beating to Teresa del Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing him with honey, feeding him to ants. He marches into Mexico City at the head of an army of 60,000. Rather than bother with...
...Mexico City. Villa is not a success. He goes home presently to Chihuahua. He is buying a dozen pork chops for his newest girl when Don Felipe del Castillo, watching from a window across the street, leans out and shoots him dead...
...Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Jean Piccard, sister-in-law of Stratonaut Auguste Piccard, announced plans to pilot a balloon ascension near Detroit this summer. With her will go her husband to make scientific observations. Said Mrs. Piccard: "There really isn't much danger. . . . I'll know my two children are in good hands while I'm gone. We are anxious to avoid having to land in the ocean. And I'll be the one to worry about that...
During a law suit in Wilmington, Del. Mme Yvonne Alexandrine Cotnareani, divorced wife of Perfumer Francois Coty (real name: François Spoturno), revealed that he had settled half his fortune on her before their divorce in 1929. Amount settled...