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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually Nurse Toppan's victims were her patients, but she had a habit of giving them less-than-lethal doses to prolong their illnesses if she liked working for them. One day in 1901, her old friend Mrs. Alden P. Davis came to visit her, died in convulsions after dinner. Nurse Toppan accompanied the body to the Davis home at Cataumet. When people came with flowers (Nurse Toppan later said), "I wanted to say to them: 'You had better wait and in a little while I will have another funeral for you.'" Sure enough, within 40 days...
...grievous mistake. This year he ran against Governor Davey again in the Democratic primary. Helped by Labor, which disliked the Governor's interference in strikes, methodical Democrat Sawyer eliminated picturesque Democrat Davey, 449,000 to 419,000. Meanwhile, Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with just one "my good friend'' from the President, was able to win renomination against onetime Governor George White, who was Democratic National Chairman in 1920 and the Jim Farley of Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful Vice-Presidential campaign...
...Goods Dealer Joseph Silverman Jr., the White House allowed him to weather it. Not until Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936 did Harry Woodring become a problem. Franklin Roosevelt met that problem the easy way: he successively saved Harry Woodring's face and pleased his friend, Mrs. Harry Woodring, by upping the Assistant first to Acting, then to full Secretary...
...Seattle to Fairbanks, inquire whether the project has sufficient military value to justify expenditure of U. S. money on a road through Canada. By law, this is no direct concern of the Assistant Secretary of War. But Franklin Roosevelt is interested, and Louis Johnson is glad to accommodate his friend at the White House...
...Marie chanced instead to ask her friend whether he expected their romance to be celebrated by a cinema like the one in which this ironic little conversation occurs, any sensible young Swede, no matter how well-mannered, would certainly have answered no. Hollywood's tumbrils began rumbling five years ago, when an MGM story reader reported that Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette was "thoroughly modern, thoroughly plausible and slightly censorable." The picture was listed on the late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director...