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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Friedrich W. von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the German Ambassador, sought relief from Washington's heat at Hot Springs, Va., making occasional trips back to the capital only when necessary. He hopes to visit the Fatherland later in the summer. H. H. Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgium's Ambassador, has removed himself and his diplomatic entourage to Gibson Island, Md., in Chesapeake Bay. Katsuji Debushi, the Japanese, has gone to Buena Vista, Va., for cooling elevation. The Mexican Ambassador, Senor Don Manuel C. Tellez, went to his own country, where it is really...
Nominee Hylan hopes to gain Republican support as a fusion candidate. Against his hopes looms the short, swart figure of Manhattan Republican Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, who expects the Republican mayoral nomination. By way of preparation, Congressman La Guardia last week went to the U. S. Army hospital at Hot Springs. Ark., had his tonsils removed...
Divorced. Will H. Hays, onetime (1921-22) Postmaster-General, onetime Republican National Committee Chairman, President of Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America; from Mrs. Helen Louise Thomas Hays; at Sullivan, Ind.; after a marriage lasting 27 years. Reason: incompatibility...
...fraternal quarrel arose from Filene expansion plans. Having last winter acquired Boston's R. H. White Co. (TIME, Dec. 10), the Filene management next discussed merger arrangements with Abraham & Straus, Inc., of Brooklyn and with F. & R. Lazarus & Co., of Columbus, Ohio. Feeling that the proposed consolidation would submerge individual prominence and kudos, Brother Edward Filene secured a temporary injunction prohibiting transfer of Filene stock to the holding company which was being planned to operate the three stores. He maintained that he had been disregarded in the merger plans, that no merger should be permitted without his having...
Last fortnight Attorney Will H. Latta, of Indianapolis, was killed when a train struck his automobile. Last week Attorney Latta's will left public bequests of more than $160,000,000. Yet no rich man was Attorney Latta. His total estate came only to some...