Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, debilitated by a severe attack of pneumonia in November, his last words were: "Doctor, I am fighting for my life." So well had Producer Belasco warped the web of legend about himself that his age could only be approximated at 77. The Belasco legend begins with his father. Humphrey Abraham Belasco, a descendant of Portuguese Jews who fled their native land because of religious persecution. Abraham Belasco emigrated in 1852 from England to San Francisco. The records of Son David's birth, a year later in San Francisco, were presumably destroyed by the earthquake-fire of 1906. David...
...second to the Scripps owned evening News in circulation), is strongly Republican, tinged with the liberal views of its publisher Edward D. ("Ed") Stair. A "clean, home paper," it suggests somewhat the New York Herald Tribune; and like the latter it boasts an exceptionally able women's editor?Mary Humphrey. (Herald Tribune has Mrs. William Brown Meloney.) Some of the Free Press' following may be accounted for by its Chicago Tribune comic features. This situation may be affected by the Tribune's recent acquisition of the Macfadden tabloid Detroit Daily (TIME, April...
...John Munro Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love- the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore...
...Porcupine District, then the Kirkland Lake District. In 1911 he went to the Rouyn District of Quebec and found some gold. Nine years later he staked the claims, financed by a syndicate of farmers. Experts refused to buy him out but in 1922 two New York men, Humphrey W. Chadbourne (brother of Sugarman Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne) and Samuel C. Thomson, mining engineers, prospecting in the district, formed the Noranda syndicate to take over what Ed Home had found...
...Maine's four Representatives were elected in September ? four Republicans. Also: one Republican Senator (Wallace Humphrey White...