Word: lates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist by nature. Something is bound to happen." But for the first World War's great profiteer and patriot, World War II came 18 days too late...
Died. Susan C. Whitney Dimock, 97, diamond-studded matriarch of Washington, D. C. society, sister of the late William Collins Whitney, who founded the Whitney fortune; in Bar Harbor...
Biggest thing in the sculpture room was the late Gaston Lachaise's tiptoeing, steatopygous, nude, Standing Woman; one of the smallest was still the reductio ad absurdum of John B. Flannagan's solid, amusingly diminutive Elephant...
...British Fascists feared the same fate had overtaken Sir Oswald Mosley's Action when the first issue after war's outbreak failed to appear. Actually Sir Oswald's proofs were held up by the censor until too late for publication. Last week's Action (cut from 20 pages to eight) was out on time, demanding: "What is the policy of the Government in the present War? At first we were told this was a war to save Poland. Now we are told that it's a war to destroy Hitlerism. In plain language...
...years. His runaway took him to St. Louis where, still in short pants, he got a job with McNish, Johnson & Slavin's Refined Minstrels, singing A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. This job was the making of him. He became a protege of the late, bully-built William Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring the minstrel circuit with Charley Mitchell, the little man who wouldn't stay down for the great John L. Sullivan. Joe learned to box (well enough to claim the bantamweight championship in 1886, and troupe later...