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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acquitted at Woburn, Mass, last month of the charge of driving while under the influence of liquor (TIME, Aug. 24). ir Boston Robert Ickes, adopted son of the Secretary of the Interior, Harold Le Clair Ickes, ran his coupe into another automobile, injuring five...
...went to their own defense there were hisses and applause. Foreign visitors distinguished themselves by disagreeing politely but pointedly with the New Deal's dogma on utilities. Carl Krecke, official head of the German delegation, expressed himself against too much governmental restriction on utilities. Switzerland's Le Maitre declared that 98% of his country's homes were electrified, that many electric companies were owned partly by private investors and partly by local governments and the question of public ownership did not worry anyone. Viscount Falmouth, nicely neutral on the surface, explained 1 Britain's system...
...pilots out because of their accidents in the Bendix, the Thompson was left to a parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked...
...good fortune this year in picking up Le Linge, a splendid Manet, and two very important Cezannes, The Drinker and The Woodchopper which had been held in a private collection in Switzerland, and I have four Matisse interiors, new ones. It's an amazing thing about Matisse. He's getting on in years, you know, and everyone thought he had shot his bolt in art. He's 67 or 68 years old and he hadn't shown anything in two years. But this year he had a show in Paris that would knock your...
Died. Wilmarth Ickes, 37, son of the late Mrs. Harold Le Clair Ickes and the University of California's Historian James Westfall Thompson, her first husband; by his own hand (revolver); in Winnetka, Ill. In Woburn, Mass, the Secretary of the Interior's other foster son, Robert H. Ickes, 23, was acquitted of driving while under the influence of liquor...