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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minneapolis (income $5,000 to $6,000), which reduced the merit of Royal Barry Wills's design to that of a safe investment. For the Smiths of Wyncote, Pa. (income $10,000 to $12,000), Aymar Embury's spacious Colonial house appeared as dignified as all get-out, Harrison & Fouilhoux's severely glass-walled house as daring as the devil...
Held in Prague 14 years ago at the suggestion of Czechoslovakia's Founder-President Masaryk was the first International Management Congress. Last week, for its seventh get-together, the International Management Congress convened in the U. S. for the first time. Somewhat self-conscious about their messages of international cooperation, all but one of the 2,000 delegates from 21 nations tactfully avoided reference to last week's Czechoslovakian crisis. The one was Robert J. Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Office. To avoid further offending visitors, five paragraphs of his speech relating to "Fascistic...
Douglas Gorce Corrigan signed a contract with RKO Radio Pictures to play himself in his own life story. For the story he will get $25,000, for appearing...
...45th birthday Marshall Field III, Manhattan socialite, inherited about $100,000,000 in accrued income from the estate of his Chicago department-store tycoon grandfather. Already a millionaire many times over, under the terms of the first Marshall Field's will he will get the residue (approximately $500,000,000) when...
...enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from a psychopathic ward, Ann hatches a scheme to get him fired. In the big, happy finale, superpressagent Wright Boyes (a ringer for Dexter Fellows) sends them off with good wishes for a long life of headlining with fine medium-sized circuses...