Word: invalidated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties a discarded mistress in an armchair where she suffocates; goes to jail for murder; escapes after 13 years to rescue his daughter who has been convinced by her mother that she is a chronic invalid. It appears certain, when His Greatest Gamble ends, that Philip Eden will go back to jail and his daughter (Dorothy Wilson) will marry a bedraggled reporter (Bruce Cabot) who gives every sign of becoming as assiduously irresponsible as his father...
...directors he served came a cropper. Thanks to Roiter, its affairs were wound up before they fell foul of the law, but the directors' reputations for smartness were not enhanced. Roiter resigned from the university, got many an abusive letter in his daily mail. He knew that his invalid son. best of his family, was dying. When Hallem's son brought him the news of his father's suicide and accused Roiter of having always felt contempt for Hallem, of needing his wretchedness as a foil for his own excellence. Roiter admitted it. When Roiter died...
ALICE JAMES: HER BROTHERS, HER JOURNAL-ed. by Anna Robeson Burr- Duffield &Green ($2.50). Well-edited story of the invalid sister of the (Boston) James boys...
...chain department store. By 1929 hard work and good fortune in Oklahoma and California oil lands rewarded him with enough money to quit the Penney company and move to Beverly Hills, Year ago he bought a five-acre place at Arcadia, 15 mi. outside Los Angeles. He and his invalid wife gave a little house-warming one night last week to christen a new pavilion and swimming pool...
Senator Reed: At the present time I am defending a former official of the Government who is being sued for damages on the allegation that he compelled the payment of a tax which was in fact invalid. This man was trying to enforce a Federal statute, asserting that the tax was valid, and trying to collect it. He is now being sued for that by one of the persons who paid the tax. His interests are absolutely identical with those of the Government of the United States. I do not see why a Member of the House or Senate should...