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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people she had ruined dubbed her last week with a sort of awe "La Grande Catherine de Finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Methods! | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...operas to be given are--First week: Monday evening, November '26, Butterfly: Tuesday evening, November 27, Fausta: Wednesday matinee, November 28, Carmen: Wednesday evening, November 28, Figaro: Thursday evening, November 29, Martha; Friday evening, November 30, Faust; Saturday matinee, December 1, Butterfly: Saturday evening, December 1, Carmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Opera Company Will Start Its Second Season in Boston This Month--Aim is to Popularize Opera in English | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

Second week: Monday evening, December 3, Carmen; Tuesday evening, December 4, Butterfly; Wednesday matinee, December 5, Pagliacci and The Legend of the Piper: Wednesday evening, December 5, Faust, Thursday evening, December 6, Figaro; Friday eveing, December 7, Carmen; Saturday matinee, December 8, Faust; Saturday evening, December 8, Martha...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Opera Company Will Start Its Second Season in Boston This Month--Aim is to Popularize Opera in English | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

...Easton, Pa., a Mrs. Francis Gillespie made known that she, her six sisters and three brothers, all children of the late Irish-born Daniel Timony, plus their husbands, wives and 14 children of voting age, would all vote for Smith (34 votes). Next day, a Mrs. Martha Griffiths of Williamstown, Pa., aged 87, announced 87 votes for Hoover-her eleven children, 32 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 33 sons, daughters, grandsons-and granddaughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politicules | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...year after Appomattox, her parents christened her Martha McChesney Berry. For her they must have envisioned a gracious membership in the Colonial Dames of America, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, also a brilliant Southern marriage. But Miss Berry never married. Nor did she choose the delicately charming life of a Southern aristocrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Berry Award | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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