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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horner had appointed James Michael Slattery, 60, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, pink, parbald product of the Chicago Democratic machine, campaign manager for Governor Horner and Senator Scott Lucas. Son of a coal-yard foreman, Jimmy Slattery early got on the city pay roll, became secretary of the late Senator Lewis' new law college (Webster), begat eleven children, never won an election for himself...
...Brown Shirts and decided to form, within the Storm Troopers, a carefully chosen elite group of men to be known as the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Corps"), better known as the 55 Guards. Their primary function at first was to guard the Führer. First 55 leader was the late Julius Schreck, the Führer's adjutant and chauffeur. In the next four years the leadership was changed three times; in 1929 Himmler got his crack at the job and the organization began to hum. He and it have hummed ever since...
Actually left in the League are none but France and Britain (and some of their proteges), Russia and small fry nations: the Scandinavian countries, 13 minor European countries, ten Latin American countries, Liberia, Turkey, the unconquered tag-end of China, the defunct Republic of Spain, and the late Kingdom of Ethiopia (as represented by Haile Selassie). This League of leftovers represents only one of Europe's two clattering armed camps, and no altercation was ever settled by having only one side sit down and talk things over...
...Philadelphia umbrella maker, James Stokley is a jack of all sciences; puttered with chemistry and photography in boyhood, studied biology at the University of Pennsylvania, took an M.A. in psychology, taught general science in high school, wrote science articles for newspapers. In 1924 he met the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, famed chemistry popularizer, who hired him as a staff writer for Science Service. As a Science Service writer Stokley hopped over to Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar eclipse expeditions and two years...
Engaged. Patricia Ziegfeld, 22, only daughter of Cinemactress Billie Burke and the late Florenz Ziegfeld; to William Stephenson,* 26, dance instructor; in Hollywood...