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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. Henry A. Bishop Jr., son of Henry Alfred Bishop (railroad, bank & telegraph tycoon) of Bridgeport, Conn.; by Mrs. Gloria Gould Bishop, daughter of the late George Jay Gould. She was married in 1923, aged 17, and has at various times since conducted a dance studio in Manhattan, made public appearances as hostess-manageress of the Embassy cinemahouse on Broadway...
Died. Mrs. Walston Hill Brown, famed suffragist, director of Illinois House, hospital in which over 20,000 World War veterans were treated, daughter of the late Robert G. Ingersoll, famed agnostic; in Riverside, Conn...
...First International Film Congress was declared to be in session. More strictly honest, President Leopold Gutmann would have substituted "European" for "International." For the U. S. which produces 57% of the world's pictures was not represented. Deliberately, invitations had been mailed to U. S. producers too late to allow them to reach Berlin for the Congress...
Hugo Stinnes, son of the late Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, was arrested and jailed last week in Berlin, charged with attempting to defraud the German Government. His secretary, also arrested but later released, accused him of wanting to sell falsely registered war bonds...
...late Frances E. Willard planted two saplings, 70 years ago, and cried: "As these two horse chestnut trees grow and spread their branches, so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throughout all the world." Miss Willard was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The two trees in the yard of her home at Evanston, Ill. (now the headquarters of the W. C. T. U.) did grow, and now they are rotting. Last week, tree surgeons were busy anointing, repairing and healing the two trees...