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...made recently in TIME that Capt. Vernou is now aide to the President (TiME, May 30). For personal reasons I would like to know the parentage of Capt. Vernou. May Vernou, a daughter of Capt. Vernou of the 19th U. S. Infantry, was a schoolmate of mine in Galveston, Tex., in the '80's. She married an officer of the U. S. Army, whose name I do not recall, and died not long afterwards. As a subscriber in good standing would appreciate a TIME pencil, as mentioned in the issue of June 13, p. 2. MRS. GEORGE WILLRICH...
...exhibit opened with a reception at which platters of sweetmeats and little cups of Turkish coffee were handed round by Miss Angela Mulinos, an Attic beauty who was "Miss Greece" at the 1930 Galveston International. Speeches were made by Professor Demetrios Tselos of Princeton, Vice Consul Konstantine Konstandas. The guest of honor (who was unfortunately unable to be there because of a pressing engagement to wrestle in Toronto) was lion-chested Christopher Theophilus, more widely known as Jim Londos, world's heavyweight wrestling champion. High above the clink of coffee cups sounded the praises of Greek artists, poets, professors...
Married. John Held Jr. 42, cartoonist, author (Grim Youth, The Flesh is Weak), divorced last August by Mrs. Ada Johnson Held; and one Gladys Moore, 24, winner of a Galveston beauty contest in 1928 at which Artist Held was a judge; in Stamford, Conn...
Texas' two great industries are cotton and oil. Governor Sterling is an oil man. He was born 56 years ago into a large family impoverished by the Civil War. He left school early (his diction still shocks grammarians), started a small lighterage business near Galveston, opened a general store at the age of 20. He moved into the oil fields of Humble, made some money as a merchant and banker, in 1910 invested in two producing wells. Out of this venture grew Humble Oil Co. control of which was sold in 1919 to Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey...
Active in propagating new uses for cotton to increase consumption and reduce the cotton surplus is the Galveston (Texas) Chamber of Commerce. Recently it adopted and sent to Washington a resolution calling upon the Treasury to use an all-cotton paper stock for U. S. currency.* Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, replying to the chamber's general manager, rejected the suggestion on the ground that linen stock gives paper money great durability. During the War when Irish linen was scarce the U. S. used cotton stock but discovered that it stretched and tore...