Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. Howard Henry Spaulding, by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of the late John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charges habitual drunkenness...
...Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsel of the Federal Reserve Board. During the War he served as Captain with the Red Cross. Since 1920 he has been Deputy Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Said John Pierpont Morgan: "The appointment of Mr. Harrison should meet with the hearty approval of the entire banking community here . . . have the additional advantage of continuing unchanged the friendly and important relations which the Federal Reserve Bank has had so many years with the central banks of issue abroad...
Peggy Wood (whose fame so transcends that of her own husband, John VanAlstyn Weaver, that he has been facetiously called Mister Peggy Wood) makes a good wife; Katherine Wilson is real as the seductress who "makes" a good husband; Playwright Strong has made a good play...
Critic St. John Ervine in the New York World last week related that Bernard Shaw had once assured him that the characters of whom he wrote were interesting to him only as megaphones through which he himself might voice his social speculations; but since it is impossible to have much interest in ideas about human problems without having first an even larger interest in the human beings who are faced with them, Shaw's plays, among them Major Barbara, are interesting for their people rather than their propaganda. Before any writer can portray Rummy Mitchens, a Salvation Army derelict...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., $1,000,000, Cox & Stevens and John H. Wells, Inc., Pugsey & Jones at Wilmington...