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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained for mild-seeming Paul Yates, as assistant to Governor Pearson, to make the biggest noise of all. Turning, against his superior, he posted his resignation to Washington by airmail last autumn. While it was en route, Secretary Ickes discharged him, denounced him as a "trouble-maker." With Senate and House Committees on Territories & Insular Affairs, Mr. Yates filed charges of extravagance, inefficiency and corruption against Governor Pearson, demanded an investigation. Senator Tydings took up the cause, persuaded the Senate to let him head an investigating committee. By that time the Islands had become such a snarling, spitting, riotous cage...
Since then reports on a few minor crashes have dribbled into the U. S. Press, attracted little attention. Last month TWA's Sky Chief, en route from Los Angeles to Kansas City, cracked up in a Missouri fog, killed both its pilots, three of its eleven passengers including U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13). Unable to land at Kansas City because of fog, the plane had proceeded toward a Department of Commerce emergency landing field at Kirksville, Mo., 128 mi. away. About 16 mi. from Kirksville, with only 27 minutes of fuel left, the pilot came down...
...avoid having an interview interrupted by Federal agents; hence the informal positions of the boy and the reporter. The reporter is 59 but not corpulent, weighs 128 lb. at 5 ft. 6. The boy was taken directly home, without the reporter stopping for photographs or to telephone his newspaper en route, which would have given the Times an earlier street appearance than its rivals. Please correct your "drag-out and flooring" of George Weyerhaeuser...
...famed socialite, Lord Hyde was married three years ago before the High Altar of Westminster Abbey, a privilege generally reserved for royalty. The Bishop of Kimberley said services for him on the railway platform, a special train carried his body to Cape Town en route to Britain...
Married. Max Reinhardt, 60, stage and cinema producer; and Helene Thimig, his longtime great & good friend, member of a famed German acting family; in Nevada, en route to Hollywood, where Reinhardt lately completed filming A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Reno last month he obtained validation of his divorce four years ago in Riga, Latvia, from Actress Else Heims, who threatened to charge bigamy should he remarry...