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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole French debt ($4,025,000,000). The French deputies, anxious to avoid ratifying any debt agreement at all as long as possible, ingenuously asked Prime Minister Raymond Poincare to request more time from Washington. Dutifully M. Poincare instructed Ambassador Paul Claudel to interview Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. Dutifully Ambassador Claudel called at the Stimson office, was referred to Secretary of the Treasury Andrev Mellon. Secretary Mellon, himself under orders, was dutifully unimpressed. Mr. Claudel so informed M. Poincare, who so informed the Chamber of Deputies, which was then more sternly than ever faced with the necessity...
Died. Wilmer Stultz, 29, of Nassau, L. I., trans-Atlantic air pilot (the Friendship, with Amelia Earhart, June, 1928); at Roosevelt Field, L. I., while stunting with two friends...
Married. Ralph Pulitzer Jr., of Manhattan, grandson of the late great Joseph Pulitzer (founder of the New York World); and Miss Bessie Catherine Aspinwall of Great Neck, L. I.; at Great Neck...
Proud were four pretty Eastern girls last week. At Hicksville. L. I., they performed the central rites at the opening of the Long Island Aviation Country Club, first of its kind in the U. S. Before several hundred socialites beneath variegated lawn umbrellas, each girl christened a club plane?Bunny, Squirrel, School Marm, Malolo. The girls were Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (see above);* Emily Lawrance, daughter of Charles Lanier Lawrance (see below); Ann McDonnell, daughter of Vice President Edward O. McDonnell of G. M.P. Murphy & Co. (securities); Frances Reaves, daughter of John S. Reaves, chairman...
...appraised the other seeded women players, Spain's dark and dashing Lili d'Alvarez who would like to play in a bathing suit; England's cheery, sandy-haired Eileen Bennett and determined, hard-driving Betty Nuthall; Mme. Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom and Helen Wills is supposed to exist not only rivalry...