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Died. Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, Lord Devonport, 78, "first grocer to become a peer," head of International (chain) Stores, Britain's onetime War Food Controller; at Dunkald, Scotland...
...Senators to fight for them. In New York an automobile dealer who sold a Ford for $50 below list price was fined $500. When he refused to pay, he was sentenced to jail for three months under a State law to supplement NRA regulations. Under another State law a grocer who sold bottles of milk at 3¢ below the list price was also convicted, made liable to a $200 fine, six months in jail or both...
Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy...
...15th Century London, it ranks with such historical efforts as The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19). Author Lindsay has been more careful to avoid anachronism than unreality, though he has thought it better to tone down the broad King's English of the day. The hero, a grocer's son turned soldier, comes back to his paternal home on London Bridge after a ten-year absence, to find his betrothed wed to an old curmudgeon, to get himself hopelessly entangled with his best friend's fiancée. Luckily for all Jack Cade's rebellion...
Among the miscellaneous single choices are those of psychiatrist, grocer, actor, philosopher, and concert singer...