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...66th birthday of George V rolled round last week, Australians expected that among the "birthday honors" would be a peerage for Sir Isaac Isaacs, new Australian Governor General, only native-born G. G. of a British Dominion (TIME, May 5, Dec. 15, 1930). When the Honors List was published at London, Australians were disappointed. Native Sir Isaac Isaacs got nothing-possibly because of the unconcealed anger of George V, who objected vigorously when the Australian Government refused to accept the Duke of York as Governor General, forced His Majesty to appoint Sir Isaac, a man whom he did not "even...
...Married. Isaac Frederick Marcosson, famed interviewer for the Satevepost; and Mrs. Frances Barberey; in Wyncote...
Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819-83) was married, but few people have heard of her husband, Isaac. Yet it was Isaac who first got hold of the basic formula for the Compound; he took it as part payment of a debt. In the hard times after the panic of 1873 Lydia, who never liked doctors, began to fix it up, pass it out to eager neighbors. The first bottle was sold in 1875. When Lydia got the idea of printing her picture with the ad, she soon became best known woman in the U. S. Pictures in newspaper offices were scarce...
...night about three weeks ago Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr., an ear, nose and throat specialist of high standing professionally and socially, was called to the telephone of his home in St. Louis. His wife heard him repeat the details of a hurry-call for his services; then Dr. Kelley drove away in his car. He did not return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein...
...site of the shrine to North America's eight Roman Catholic saints (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), excavators had discovered two complete skeletons and the skull of a third. Archeologist Parker was asked to determine their identity. They might be the remains of three of the eight saints?Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, Jesuit missionaries?who were slain near Auriesville by Iroquois Indians in the middle of the 17th Century...