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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lola Jean Harlow Space Lee Tracy Pops Frank Morgan Gifford Middleton Franchot Tone Brogan Pat O'Brien Mac Una Merkel Junior Ted Healy...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/8/1933 | See Source »

...lurid reputation, to adopt a baby, because it scandalizes the lady inspectors from the orphan asylum. When she makes up her mind to run away from it all, there comes into Lola's life, with a suddenness that she fails to find suspicious, something beautiful. He is Gifford Middleton of the Boston Middletons. He tells her that her hair is like a field of silver daisies. Lola is broken-hearted when her father and brother spoil the Middleton romance by scandalizing the Middleton parents-until it turns out that all the Middletons are really down-at-heel actors hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...that, on a recent visit to the White House. Governor Pinchot drove up in a blue Rolls-Royce-a borrowed car. Besides the State-owned Studebaker, Governor Pinchot has a Studebaker of his own. which he scrupulously uses on private expeditions. Mrs. Pinchot drives an Isotta-Fraschini; their son, Gifford Jr., a Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Birthdays. Gifford Pinchot, 68; Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 62; Herbert Hoover, 59; Dr. Hugo Eckener, 56; Nathalia Clara Ruth Abarbannel Crane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 21, 1933 | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right. I've got steady work with the telephone company." Asked what his job was, he introduced himself as Walter Sherman Gifford, president of A. T. & T. After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation had put a $50 bill in the collection box. They decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake." Attendants learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1933 | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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