Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawyer Buckner as he debarked from the Queen Mary last week, they said his racket had been bonds of the Philippine Railway Co. When the bonds were down around $10, he got himself appointed chairman of the bondholders' protective committee. To boost the bonds, the Federals said, he flew to Manila and from there flashed word that he was getting the Philippine Commonwealth to take the issue over at $50 or maybe $65. The bonds shot up to $31 last January and February, crashed when President Manuel Quezon categorically denied his Government was buying them. SEC found that speculators...
After receiving a letter from his son on Wednesday, the senior Myerson flew out to Utah to join him, Mrs. Myerson revealed last night. Her first direct word from him since his disappearance last Thursday came yesterday when young Myerson called her by long distance, said "Hello, mother; this is Bob, I'm fine," and hung...
Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew into rages when asked to exhibit evidence of conjugal affection...
...spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring the Duke of Windsor back into the royal family circle. The King's private plane flew the Gloucesters from Marseille to Paris and the British Embassy arranged the details of the meeting...
During the Czechoslovak Crisis many Frenchmen were annoyed that Neville Chamberlain, although he flew thrice to Adolf Hitler (Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich), did not fly to Paris. Instead, French Premier Edouard Daladier flew twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...