Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 38 years of rigorous, one-man editing of the Satevepost George Horace Lorimer was tired when he resigned Jan. 1. Said he quietly: "I should like to live a more leisurely life and put into effect some long deferred plans." Last week at his home in Philadelphia's suburban, wooded Wyncote, death overtook the 69-year-old editor in his quest for leisure. He had been ill with pneumonia a week...
Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
...reason railroad revenues are not up in proportion to operating costs is because the Interstate Commerce Commission on Jan. 1 removed the emergency freight rates set up in 1931. Anticipating this $120,000,000 cut in revenue, the roads in October 1936 petitioned the I. C. C. to raise freight rates on certain basic commodities. Last week it somehow became generally understood in Wall Street that the I. C. C. was about to announce a favorable decision. With throttle wide and all passengers clinging to their seats, railroad stocks thundered up, pulling the whole market along with them...
Dled in Tokyo, Jan...
...that time one of the feeblest teams in big-time competition was the Blue Devil aggregation of mighty, tobacco-rich Duke, which, having re-entered football in 1920 after a lapse of 25 years, had changed coaches almost every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke...