Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Churchill Brown Mehard raked through a personal inheritance so fast and thoroughly that in 1937 his family had him deposed as executor of his father's estate (estimated at $1,000,000). Before that he had been a Pittsburgh socialite, a hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill...
...Bottom. Promptly at 7:30 one clear, crisp morning last week the U. S. submarine Squalus, (rhymes with jail us), Lieutenant Oliver F. Naquin commanding, put out from the Navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H., to practice fast dives. Besides her commander she carried four other officers, three civilian observers and 51 enlisted men. None of the 59 was unusually nervous, although the Squalus had not passed the testing stage and only two weeks before had been stranded under water for an hour with a fouled blowout valve. Newest and one of the finest of the Navy's submarines...
...triple indemnity plus costs is payable. It was no coincidence that Republic's suit followed by one week C. I. O.'s plea to the Labor Board for $7,500,000 in back pay for time lost by employes after their reinstatement had been ordered, but a fast play to even the score...
...Republican law and order?" But words could probably not have saved him had not Benito Mussolini unwittingly come to his aid. By staging anti-French demonstrations demanding Tunisia, Corsica arid a few other choice bits of French territory, Il Duce gave the Premier his big chance to regain his fast-dwindling popularity. The Premier answered the Italian campaign with a triumphal tour of Corsica and North Africa. Returning, he declared categorically that France would not cede one inch of her territory. The French people slapped their chests with satisfaction...
Only swank night spot with anything like a full-sized show (Hotel St. Regis' gay, fast-moving ice frolic is the best brief show) is the lustrous Rainbow Room with its dazzling night view from the 6sth floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. Suave, refined, pleasantly conventional, the show headlines Musicomedy-Find-of-The-Year Mary Martin, who sings My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Leave...