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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late 20's and early 30's, the Boss of Mexico was pudgy, greasy, General Plutarco Elias Calles-part of the time as President, part of the time as boss of Presidents. After having bossed several stooge Presidents, General Calles in 1934 ordered the National Revolutionary Party machine to elect General Cárdenas. It did, with a big majority, and no difficulty...
When his will was filed for probate in Chicago last week, rumors of secret wealth supposedly salvaged by the late fallen Utilitarian Samuel Insull were dispelled once & for all. All that was left of a fortune once estimated at $100,000,000 was $1,000. Debts totaled...
Last week the camp neared the end of its eleventh season. A $300,000 concern, helped through depression years by friends like the Juilliard and Eastman Foundations, Carnegie Corp. and the late Sam Insull, the Music Camp offers eight weeks of fun and din to any young (10-to-18) U. S. musician with $200. About 200 youngsters attended this summer...
Married. Sylvia Sidney (née Kosow), 28, cinemactress, divorced wife of Publisher Bennett ("Beans") Cerf (Random House); and Luther Adler, 35, actor (Golden Boy), youngest son of the late Tragedian Jacob P. Adler of the Royal Family of the Yiddish theatre; in London...
Died. Daniel George Dodge, 21, heir to the $9,000,000 fortune of the late Automobileman John Dodge, in Georgian Bay, near Little Current, Ontario. Honeymooning with his two-weeks' bride, a former telephone operator and daughter of a tugboat captain, Heir Dodge picked up a stick of dynamite in the garage at his camp. It exploded, cracked his skull and tore off his left arm. With friends' help, his wife, seriously hurt herself, put him in a speedboat, started to drive to a doctor across the bay. Pain-crazed, Daniel Dodge jumped overboard, drowned...