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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. John Jacob Raskob Jr., 23, eldest of the eleven children of the chairman of the Democratic National Committee; and Minerva Elaine Aaronson, 19, lawyer's stenographer, of New Haven, Conn. They met while Raskob Jr. was at Yale (Sheffield Scientific School, class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...received. Astronomers, a conservative clan, will likely select a classical name. If Clyde Tombaugh, first human actually to see the planet, suggests a name satisfactory to astronomers, it will doubtless be accepted. Names suggested last week: Telesis, Noveno, Amos, Andy, Tunney, Pax, Archie, Nonus, Cronos, Ceres, Juno, Vulcan, Persephone, Minerva, Excelsis, Coolidge, Hoover, Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earthlings and X | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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