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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Dorothy R. Fell, 20, daughter of the late John R. Fell, socialite sportsman and banker who died of a knife wound in Java last winter (TIME, March 6). and of Dorothy Randolph Fell Mills (wife of President Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Mills); and Woolworth Donahue, 18, 5? & 10? heir (grandson...
...corporate plantations, have been ruined on a nationwide scale, driven to suicide and beggary. As the able lawyer representing Cuba's sugar interests, tall, stalwart, snowy-crested Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne put through the International Agreement ("Chadbourne Plan"), running from 1930 to 1935, by which its signatories-Cuba. Java and the European beet sugar bloc (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Jugoslavia)-hoped to win a profitable price for sugar by heroic sacrifices in production. Cuba under Tyrant Machado made the greatest sacrifice, cut her production by 60%, but the ensuing rise in sugar prices did not begin to compensate. Cuba...
Died. Alexander Van Rensselaer, 82, a founder and longtime president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, board president of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Last February when his stepson John R. Fell sensationally died of a knife wound in Solo, Java, Alexander Van Rensselaer protested it could not be suicide because Fell was "not a quitter" (TIME. March...
...chain store system ever attempted in China." Open or opening shortly are two Bat'a stores in Nanking, two in Foochow, two in Ningpo, one each in Chefoo. Soochow and Weihaiwei. Last week strapping, cleft-chinned Jan Bat'a could point to 50 chain stores operating in Java, 15 in the Straits Settlements, three in Saigon. Deliberately, according to U. S. consular reports, these stores are going after "not the trade of foreigners and the upper classes, but that of low-class natives still unused to shoes." Meanwhile what of Son Tommy Bat'a? At the funeral...
Socony Vacuum Corp. Bandoeng, Java...