Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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West Medford, Mass...
...German character not only craves size, but loves neatness. The 1,500,000 Germans who rally at Nürnberg each year could not possibly be housed or hold their mass festivities in the town itself (normal pop. 450,000). As a result, in the past five years a titanic Parteitag Geldnde, or party grounds, has been in the process of construction, in what used to be Nürnberg's Luitpold Park (see map). The area is larger than that of the old walled town...
Married. Maribel Yerxa Vinson, 26, nine times U. S. amateur figure skating champion, who last year turned professional; and her exhibition partner, professional Skater Guy Rochon Owen, 26; in Winchester, Mass...
Died. Dr. Victor Eduardo Verdades de Faria. 54, Portugal's Consul General at Manhattan; with his 38-year-old wife; when a train crashed into their automobile; in West Barnstable, Mass...
Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted...