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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign in 1934. But until last week few suspected that their Sugar Boy turned Laborcrat was unable to repay a paltry $6,000, even though the continued existence of such a debt to such a creditor would menace any politician. From the Governor's bosom friend and Philadelphia's Democratic City Chairman John B. Kelly came the only explanation. Said Mr. Kelly: "We all know that George Earle has been in the sugar business all his life. We who are his friends know that he plays the sugar market. What if he was caught...
Philippe Gangnat's father, Maurice, made his money in steel, took no interest in painting until 1903. In that year he met Pierre Auguste Renoir, bought twelve paintings right off the bat and soon became a fast friend of the old painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania...
inveterate sage, author & traveler, arrived in Manhattan fresh from Doom and his annual spring visit with his bearded bosom friend, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II. Minus his customary velvet jacket, his customary flowing bow tie, Octogenarian Bigelow in high good humor delivered himself to newshawks on this & that. On the Kaiser: "He doesn't set up as good a table as some of my neighbors." On Europe: "Next time I see you, Paris will be a provincial town of Germany with the people shouting 'Heil Hitler' in French." On Franklin Roosevelt: "President Roosevelt, I think...
...Schubert Society has met with extraordinary support from England's musical and social bigwigs. Patrons include two princesses, a sheaf of baronesses & countesses, illustrious scientists and world-renowned musicians. But the most interesting name on its letterheads is that of its president, Carola Geisler-Schubert, lifelong friend of Liedersinger von Warlich and granddaughter of Schubert's brother Ferdinand...
...airplane at Wichita Falls, Tex., cut loose at 10:45 a. m. Six hours later he landed at Spartan Airport, Tulsa, Okla. Over Oklahoma City he had soared 7,500 feet into the air, 1,267 feet higher than the U. S. altitude record set by his friend Dick du Pont in 1934. He had covered 210 miles, 52 better than the U. S. distance record, also Du Pont's. When he landed, cramped and tired, he said he could have gone on & on with the greatest of ease, had landed at Tulsa because that was his objective...