Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former champ went on to say that there isn't anything so difficult about eating live fish. "It's just a question of mind over matter," he said. "I don't mind, and the fish doesn't matter...
Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 26, multimillionaire horseman, onetime "most eligible bachelor in the U. S."; and his wife, the former Manuela ("Molly") Hudson, 24: a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Wendie...
Leon Henderson, a former NRA official, made a hurt defense of it. SECommissioner Jerome Frank explored "the question whether competition does not also at times lead to great economic and social waste," then suggested: "that the category of those industries which today we call public utilities, the category of industries where monopoly may be more desirable than competition, is not necessarily a closed...
...once reached $166,000,000. It once employed famed Knute Rockne as a sort of supersalesman. When the company failed in 1933, after three years of refusing to admit the existence of Depression I, its grand old man, President Albert R. Erskine, went home and shot himself. Later, under former Vice Presidents Paul Hoffman and Harold S. Vance, it became the first automobile company to reorganize under famed Section...
...full-blooded Tarascan Indian who once wore a red bead in his ear for good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army. He has never cut much ice as a politician, but last week when he tossed his sombrero into Mexico's Presidential ring (to succeed Lazaro Cardenas next year) with a forthright denunciation of the present expropriation policy, he created a sensation...