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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago one morning last week, Serafina di Leo lay abed in a clutter of flowers, telegrams and Sunday papers. A great deal had happened to her in three years. She had studied diligently in Italy, learned to speak pure Italian instead of the dialect on which she had been raised. She had sung at the Scala and in Genoa. With lips vermilion-red and finger nails to match, she returned to the U. S. this autumn to find herself good copy because she was a New Jersey laborer's daughter and at 19 had a five-year contract with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Leonora | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...Senate Campaign Funds Committee which then threatened to cite her for contempt. Last week's charges, the ten counts of which could provide an aggregate of ten years in jail and $21,000 in fines, were made by the District of Columbia Grand Jury, which under District Attorney Leo Rover took over the evidence collected by the Nye Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Indicted Bishop | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Monroe, Mich., Vincent Swiderski lost his parrot. Six years later he thought he saw his parrot on Mrs. Chermock's porch. Mrs. Chermock denied it was his. In court the parrot took the witness stand called by name the three children of Vincent Swiderski: Gladys, Leo, Joe. The Swiderskis got the parrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Storage | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Francisco, Leo V. Dowling slashed his wrists and throat, but failed to commit suicide. Recovering in a hospital he received a large horseshoe of flowers with a card on which was written: ''Better luck next time." Leo V. Dowling gasped, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Thus upheld by the Supreme Court, Dean Madden was re-elected president at last week's stockholders' meeting. Among other directors re-elected were Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of the College of Engineering of Cornell University (board chairman); Leo Greendlinger (vice president, treasurer and general manager); Dr. Lee Galloway and Bernard Lichtenberg (vice presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alexander Hamilton | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

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