Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Walkerton, Ind., Harold Clayton Urey was left fatherless when he was 6. His mother and later his stepfather helped him through University of Montana, from which he emerged a zoologist. The War shunted him into chemistry. Later he took his Ph. D. at University of California, studied in Copenhagen under Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr. He is married, has two daughters. He is a neat, square, plump-faced man who likes to extemporize on the piano, make charcoal sketches. Once he smoked two packages of cigarets per day. Now he chews gum instead...
Studebaker Corp. was not the first motor casualty of Depression but it was by far the biggest. The venerable South Bend, Ind. concern which Clem and Harry Studebaker founded as a wagon works in 1852, was brought low not by the usual affliction of reduced sales, but by a legal snarl over a mid-Depression effort to expand. In 1932 Studebaker purchased White Motor Co. (trucks) only to have the deal blocked by minority White stockholders. Upshot was a receivership. Last week it looked as if Studebaker would be both the first motor maker to shuffle off its financial troubles...
Eloped. Bertha Cantacuzene Smith, daughter of Prince Michael Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, divorced wife of Bruce Smith of Louisville, Ky.; and William Durrell Siebern of Cincinnati; to Jefiersonville, Ind., shortly after her engagement was announced to Donald Mackintosh, Sarasota, Fla. bank clerk. Said her mother, divorced last month from Prince Michael, of the bridegroom: "A very nice...
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport, Ind...