Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When James William Ellsworth, father of Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, died in 1925, the village of Hudson, Ohio, collected some $60,000 in taxes from his estate, spent it for a sewage disposal plant, fire equipment, street paving. The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the village to refund $34,505,77 to Son Lincoln because Hudson had overtaxed the Ellsworth estate. Having splurged the $60,000, Hudson's Mayor Carman unhappily revealed that the town had only $154.47 left to pay Explorer Ellsworth...
...have not been on display for cinemaddicts since Putting on the Ritz in 1930. He is a song & dance man who salvages a troupe of cheap melodrama actors from a Mississippi River showboat, puts them in his Broadway production, gets remorse when the audience laughs at the heroine (Rochelle Hudson...
...sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known for his Maxim silencer; of a throat...
Featuring the music of Hudson-Delage and their orchestra, the Winthrop House Winter Dance will be held Friday evening from 10 o'clock until 3 in the wee small hours of the morning. Music will be furnished by a pianist during dinner, which will be served from 7 to 8 o'clock...
...Will Hudson, one of the most prominent of modern orchestrators, arranged the music for Jack Benny's "Broadway Melody of 1936," as well as composing "Jazznocracy" and "White Heat," two melodies made popular by dusky Jimmy Lounceford...