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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning a first lieutenant, he finished a Yale law course in 1921, stayed on through football season as a line coach. Back home in Cincinnati, he teamed up with his elder brother Robert Alphonso in the practice of law. Meanwhile his family grew to two sons, five daughters. Busy as he was with the law, Charlie Taft was never too busy to respond to a call for help from practical Christian enterprises. This able, potent, bright-faced member of one of Cincinnati's great families served the Episcopal Church...
...grew angrier & angrier for 28 consecutive hours debating relief for Britain's jobless until finally the House had to be suspended in its most unruly scene since 1881 when police were called to eject honorable members by force...
Laura Johnson was born into a family of hard, violent Derbyshire folk who prospered in its lace industry. The women of Laura's family uniformly felt profound contempt for their husbands, and she grew up in a household of six women and an uncle. Her bitter great-grandmother, hearing of her husband's death, tried to cross England in time to slap his dead face before he was buried. Her mother's marriage, writes the daughter, was "an unhappy one," and when her father died soon after Laura's birth, everybody said...
Catastrophe was the only word to describe the effect of Amoskeag's collapse on Manchester's 76,000 inhabitants. Manchester grew up around the Amoskeag mills. Over half of the very land it stands on was sold or deeded to the city by Amoskeag owners. Since 1805 Amoskeag has provided the city's business lifeblood. At the peak of its prosperity in 1921, Amoskeag's red-brick plants, stretching for almost a mile along the Merrimack River (see cut), employed 18,000 workers, paid nearly one-half the city's industrial payroll. Last week Amoskeag...
Bureau of Investigation agents picked up "Dodo" Farnsworth one day last week at the Washington, D. C. home of his divorced wife. Their story was short and simple. The Navy Department first grew suspicious of Farnsworth last year when day after day he kept pestering it for information for "magazine articles," pored over books in the Naval Library. When a high-ranking officer's wife reported that he had urged her to show him certain Naval documents, G-Men joined Naval Intelligence agents in shadowing him. In May 1935, it was charged, he borrowed a U. S. Navy handbook...