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Engaged. Sari Fedak, Hungarian actress, divorced wife of Playwright Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Guardsman), to Baron Frederick Vilarnyi, Hungarian Minister at Bucharest. When he sued for divorce Playwright Molnar accused Actress Fedak of relations with 42 other men. She replied in kind with a list of 142 women...
...observers took note that the Holland bidders had won back but few of their native glories and that England's representatives had been able to keep only two pictures of primary importance-Rembrandt's Portrait of Maurice Huygens, and Francis Cotes' surprisingly fine Portrait of a Guardsman, which went to the National Gallery. The rest, with the exception of a few that French dealers netted, will probably reach...
...Resolved that the Commerce Committee should investigate the shooting of a Niagara Falls citizen by a Coast Guardsman (see PROHIBITION). ¶ Passed Senator Brookhart's resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate chain stores. ¶ Approved the House bill authorizing reduction of the air mail rate from 10 cents per half-ounce to 5 cents. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an inquiry into the diversion of commerce from U. S. to Canadian ports. ¶ Passed bills to decorate the crew of the Atlantic-crossing NC4 and to strike a special medal for Fliers Chamberlin...
West Virginia's votes for Goff will be a tribute to a well-disciplined Old Guardsman. They will remove the last trace of the disrepute which Guardsman Goff suffered from his connection with the Alien Property scandals under Attorney General Daugherty. Other reasons for the gesture will be to head off Hooverism in West Virginia and to carry on a State tradition. West Virginia Republicans almost always have a Favorite Son. In 1920 it was Howard Sutherland, the coal man from Elkins who sat in the Senate from 1917 to 1923 and is now U. S. Alien Property Custodian...
...qualification for the rough-and-tumble of life in Washington committee rooms. This was interpreted as a gentle explanation of why Joseph Warren Fordney, onetime (1899-1923) Michigan Representative, had been passed by. Mr. Fordney, whose massive girth and demeanor are well suited to his reputation as an Old Guardsman, is 74 years...