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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the yellow and white ballroom lights in Memphis' swank Hotel Peabody, 600 Southern farm folk sat ill at ease one night last week, waiting for the big moment. It came late in the evening-at 9:30 p. m. Most of the farmers' kids were already asleep when Willard C. ("Parson") Teague, chief editorial writer of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, leaned toward the microphone and drawled out the name of the landowner-sweepstakes winner for 1938 in the "C. A.'s" Plant-to-Prosper campaign. Looking completely confused and happy, grey-haired Farmer H. L. Majure...
...Senate's Teapot Dome committee with material intended to drive Harry M. Daugherty out of the Cabinet. Few years later he was sent to Atlanta for three years for conspiracy against the Dry Law. In 1928, he published a book, The Strange Death of President Harding, quoting the late President's wife as admitting she had poisoned her husband. In 1932 Rascal Means was put behind the bars for good for diddling rich Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby...
Died. The four favorite saddle horses of the late British-born Queen Maud of Norway; destroyed (according to her wish, because she could not bear to think of them passing into other hands); at her English home in Sandringham...
...most revealing thing that can be said about the fine books of 1929 is that in those brash days even Wall Street believed limited editions a good thing. Once only millionaires and professional bibliophiles collected first editions. By the late 20s, however, even plain readers were buying a few, just as they bought a few stocks. And even printers began publishing de luxe editions. Of the whole lot, only two de luxe publishers survived Depression I: George Macy's Limited Editions Club, and Eugene Virginius Connett Ill's Derrydale Press...
...Reverend Dr. Norman Burdett Nash '09, professor of Christian Social Ehtics at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, yesterday was named rector of Saint Paul's School of Concord, New Hampshire, to succeed the late Samuel S. Drury...