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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Sir Charles Bullen commanded H. M. S. Britannia at the Battle of Trafalgar and had a son named Richard Edward. Richard grew up to be a captain in the Royal Navy and had a son named Percy Sutherland. Percy grew up to be a newspaperman to beget five children and fill three inches each in the British Who's Who and Who's Who in America. Last week Percy Sutherland Bullen, 66, found himself being interviewed by newshawks in Manhattan. Reason: After 50 years with newspapers, 40 years with the London Daily Telegraph, 30 years...
...young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with mysticism and was homesick. As they grew into pre-War maturity they all became hopelessly more & more the same thing...
Apparently it all came as a result of some diligent and somewhat annoyed youths who took it upon themselves to throw waste-basketfulls of water upon rowdy, raucous men in the streets who were disturbing the peace. The fun grew to larger porportions with the pelting of automobiles with larger quantities of water. This caused a small group to gather between Lowell and Leverett Houses on Plympton Street, a gathering which immediately grew to larger proportions as more water fell...
...months and in the hospital for four weeks. She was the third Orange woman to die of the dread disease within a year. Buffalo, N. Y.-Failing to rally after a second blood transfusion, the condition of Mary Lobora-Daldan, 3, who is suffering from leucemia, grew steadily weaker today. These press dispatches of the last four weeks and many another like them concerned the most mysterious of blood diseases. White blood cells, policemen of the body, inexplicably multiply and crowd out of the arterial highways vitally necessary red service cells. Leucemia always makes prolonged news for it kills inexorably...
...Motormen began to suspect that not consumer demand but fear of such strikes as occurred last week in the Fisher Body plant had piled their desks high with orders from nervous dealers. The shifting wind in Detroit cooled Pittsburgh because automobile plants are steel's best customers. Furnaces grew hotter last week but the price of scrap steel was weak. More than one-half of all new steel is made from old steel, and the price of scrap, which steelmen must buy in advance, is regarded as an almost infallible index of steel's near-term future. From...