Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will was admitted to probate in the county court by Judge Michael S. Sheridan after being contested by distant relatives of the late journalist's widow upon the traditional grounds that Mrs. Nieman was "not of sound mind and had not sufficient mentality to make a will", and that "undue influence upon her was exercised by persons or person unknown". Although the wielder of this influence was already spoken of as "unknown", the will-breakers were specific in exonnerating the President and Fellows of any attempt to obtain from the dying Mrs. Nieman the totally unexpected and apparently illogical gift...
Massachusetts. A loser himself, Democratic Boss James Michael Curley had the consolation of seeing State Treasurer Charles Francis Hurley defeat Republican John W. Haigis to succeed Curley as Governor. Strapping, vigorous, 42-year-old Governor-elect Hurley, who likes boating and biography, was in 1930 the first Democrat to be elected State Treasurer in 19 years, went on to become the only man ever chosen thrice for that office...
...that of Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly forgotten by most Manhattan music writers. She married German Basso Michael Bohnen, soon divorced him for wealthy Robert L. Hague, oil and shipping tycoon...
...Sing, Baby, Sing" endeavors to show what happens when a night-club singer is not a gold-digger. Alice Faye is that phenomenon, and her conduct is so amazing that even a movie news-reporter (Michael Whalen) is induced to take off his hat, and eventually to marry her. She really should have married Adolphe. Menjou, but then he was always drinking and reciting Shakespeare. Miss Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those...
...years when the great flower we know as Harvard was still a tight little Puritan bud there was an enforced unanimity or religious sentiment that we nowadays find difficult to understand. Man was damned, utterly completely horribly and Calvinistically damned, and there might be no mistake about it. Michael Wigglesworth, graduate, and tutor at Harvard in the middle seventeenth century, showed God's judgment in his "Day of Doom...