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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston last week Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley told a gathering of Democrats that he had spent $115,000 out of his own pocket to help carry Massachusetts for Roosevelt in 1932, had since been rewarded with not one Federal job to add to his patronage list. Declaring himself still a Roosevelt supporter, the bluff, red-faced Irish Governor, who is now a candidate for U. S. Senator, wistfully observed that it was one of the tragedies of politics that one was not always able to pay off political obligations...
...other bit of publicity, for it emanated from Manhattan's fabulous First National ("The Baker Bank"), an institution whose able management has never thought it necessary or dignified to tell the public anything. In a sudden confidence President Jackson Eli Reynolds announced that First National's list of stockholders has increased by about 1,000 in the last year, now numbers 4,500. Of these some 1,400 held only one share each...
...Louise Kleinmeyer Ryan got an engraved invitation in her mail to the wedding of Henrietta Goetz and Mrs. Ryan's husband Ralph, 34, together with an invitation to the wedding reception, she had him jailed for bigamy. Growled Ryan, "She must have been on the wrong mailing list...
Arrayed as Admiral of the Fleet, the Sovereign last week held the first investiture of the new Edwardian reign at Buckingham Palace. Trooping gravely in came the distinguished Britons who figured in the last New Year's Honors List (TIME, Jan. 13), which beloved George V approved but did not live to sign. Of these the most famed is Feminist Christabel Pankhurst, who became at the hands of Edward VIII a sedately honored Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...with variably plausible excuses, he looked up the men whose addresses were on the list. First was Tony, the moderately successful but immoderately handsome artist who had painted Christina's portrait. Tony volunteered the information that he had been in love with her, asked her to be his mistress but she had refused. Brand felt momentarily better. Then in turn he visited: a less talented neurotic, on the verge of a nervous breakdown; his ex-chauffeur; a down-&-out book-reviewer. Three men on the list he failed to see. One, a religious maniac, had shot himself; another...