Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's event in Rhode Island was an aftermath of last January's legislative coup d'etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the...
¶Thirtyfour representatives of the four estates-business, labor, agriculture and education-were picked by the President to advise his $50,000,000 National Youth Administration. Among them were: Owen D. Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram...
Married. Francis Bolton Mallory, 37, onetime editor of Life, onetime husband of Cinemactress Nancy Carroll; and Carlota Lobato, 14, his fourth wife, daughter of a Mexican realtor, whom he met fortnight ago; in Acapulco, Mexico.
Died. William Mulholland, 79, builder of the 250-mi. $25,000,000 Owens River-Los Angeles Aqueduct, chief engineer of the St. Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found...
Scot, a Spaniard, a Pole and two U. S. natives. Rated best of the lot were the Russian, William Samuel Schwartz, and the two U. S. natives, Aaron Bohrod and Francis Chapin, ranking among Chicago artists along with the two Albright brothers.