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Expense accounts from NRA heydays rose to haunt high-flying Columnist General Hugh S. Johnson, his son Major Kilbourne, his secretary Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson. The President vetoed a bill to validate old payments to the three for excess traveling expenses in 1933-34. Unless the Senate overrides the veto...
Hollywood studios spare no lacquer in slicking up new, glamorizable names for their young hopefuls (e.g., Margarita Cansino to Rita Hayworth, Melvyn Hesselberg to Melvyn Douglas, Frances Gumm to Judy Garland). Recently Cinecolumnist John Chapman reported a Hollywood moniker to end all Hollywood monikers.
All was not apples for the Administration. One Legionnaire had fun with a version of the Pledge of Allegiance: "I pledge subservience to the present Administration, and to the public debt for which it stands; one family insufferable, with divorces and captaincies for all." And most unanimous applause of the...
Married. Frances Lulu Wheeler, daughter of isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana; and Allen Sayler, FCC employe; in Sandy Springs, Md.
Groton to Havana. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in New York City on Oct. 14, 1892, the son of Benjamin and Frances Swan Welles. The senior Welles was something more than well-to-do. There is a legend (apocryphal) about the infant Sumner: that as a child at play, he...