Word: milburn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snellings, a smart horsewoman and fancy ice-skater. She made him give up steeplechasing. Last week James Simpson, Jr. made known his new interest. Backed principally by himself & wife, he announced that he was a candidate for Congress in the North Shore district. He has a country place near Milburn, west of Waukegan. Mrs. Simpson said that unless he ran on a Wet platform, he could not serve drinks there any more...
...Johnson, and once (1910-19) a Republican Congressman, Mayor Roberts won 3,773 votes by his loud espousal of easy divorce, legalized gambling and free barrels of whiskey. For Howard Doyle, Reno's Chamber of Commerce president, 2,988 citizens, including a conservative reform element, cast their ballots. Milburn Gregory's campaign for Reno's "scenic and health attractions" got 159 votes...
...only to its divorce rush is Reno's mayoral election this week. Seeking re-election on a liberal platform is Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts who advocates placing at each & every street corner a barrel of whiskey with a pull-in dipper chained to it to drive out bootleggers. Realtor Milburn Gregory seeks the office on a platform stressing Reno's "scenic and health attractions." Howard Doyle has the support of ministers and a conservative element opposed to legalized gambling and easy divorce...
Married. Eleanor Steele, operatic soprano, prima donna last year of Brooklyn's Little Theatre Opera Company, daughter of Morgan Partner Charles Steele, sister of the wife of retired Poloist Devereux Milburn of Westbury, L. I.; and Hall Clovis, operatic tenor, singer of leading roles for two years with Little Theatre opera; in Chicago. Mrs. Clovis has had two previous husbands: Count Jean de la Greze of Paris (divorced), Dr. Louis Debonnesset of Paris (died...
Appointed. Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Manhattan lawyer, son of Chief Justice Hughes: to succeed the late John George Milburn (died, TIME, Aug. 25) as a director of New York Life Insurance...