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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt toiled late aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa as it carved the midnight waves to Red Bank, N. J. last week. Fog and finicky fish had spoiled his vacation cruise to Newfoundland. Now another European convulsion had ended it a day early. Franklin Roosevelt sat up late working on an idea of his own: a peace plea to King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy, who was trout fishing in the Alps...
...took off his dark glasses and threw them into the street. Winchell stepped on the gas. He slowed his car up to the curb at Fifth Avenue, got out, escorted Stranger No. 3 to a black limousine, inside which, also in dark glasses, sat G-Man J. Edgar Hoover. "Mr. Hoover," said Winchell, "This is Lepke...
When the Normandie safely slipped into her French Line pier in Manhattan this week, aboard (among other anxious travelers) were Sonja Henie, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Lee Shubert, Thomas J. Watson and a small gadget. Frivolous in its grim setting, it was nonetheless welcomed in Manhattan swankshops. It was a corset...
...morning last week Coast Guardsmen stationed at Cape May, N. J. intercepted an SOS that shivered their timbers: "Any ship in neighborhood with guns on board . . . lion broken loose. ..." The sender was Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, steaming 90 miles off the coast with nine passengers, half a ton of gunpowder and some 14 wild animals which she was newcastling from New York zoos to a zoo in animal-ridden Venezuela. Her crew packed no firearms...
From his father, fabulous Movie Pioneer Lewis J. ("L. J.") Selznick, who gave him a schoolboy allowance of $1,000 a week, Myron inherited a contempt for small sums of money ("peanuts" to Myron is anything under $5,000 a week), a feud with most of Father Selznick's contemporaries which is supposed to contribute to his professional zeal...