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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relatively quiet year of 1928, 132 banks with deposits of $233,000,000 in the panic year of 1907. Preliminary estimates place the 1930 total at 1,121 banks with $700,000,000 in deposits. Of these failures, the greatest part has occurred in recent months as the follow-ing table shows...
...airmen by Aviation Writer Richard Carroll. Under the heading "They Call Him Daddy." appeared the pictures and comments of Atcherly, Byrd, Chamberlin, Cobham, Doolittle, Hawks, Rickenbacker, von Gronau, many another crack flyer-all lifting peans of superlative praise for Kingsford-Smith. Some, like "Al" Williams, called him the "outstand-ing pilot of the age." Others more conservative, like Germany's Herman Koehl, expressed their "greatest admiration." A conspicuous paragraph in the alphabetical list was that beneath the name and photograph of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It read simply: "No answer." Observers reflected that Liberty might have gone...
Unhappily, Brown Buddies has very little to offer in the way of entertainment besides Bill Robinson. The situation is somewhat grotesque, having to do with a group of colored folk from East St. Louis who go to war, accompanied by comedians, chorus girls and an ingénue under the aegis of the Y. M. C. A. Adelaide Hall, a veteran of Blackbirds, is one of the noncombatants. Her singing and dancing is on a par with the entertainment furnished in a good many Harlem resorts. There are only two tunes, "In Missouria" and "Give Me AMan Like That,"which...
Paderewski, nearing 70, arrived look-ing tired and thin after his recent illness. He was accompanied by lank Ernest Schelling, a neighbor of his at Morges on Lake Geneva. He wore the characteristic Paderewski dress: ill-fitting overcoat, slouch hat, black sack suit, white waistcoat, low flannel collar, high button boots. A delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take...
...Author. Thomas Mann, 55, is reputed Germany's most considerable liv ing novelist. In 1929 he won the Nobel Prize. He lives with his wife, six chil dren and Bashan in a villa on the outskirts of Munich. Other books: The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, Royal Highness, Children and Fools, Early Sorrow...