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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week 25,115 in the last month 168,827 in the last year 668,827 since...
Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
...brought suit for divorce. Dean Noe had ceased marital relations with her, believing that childbirth might endanger her health and that "the only Christian standard of birth control is self control." Mrs. Noe lost her suit (TIME, March 14, 1932, et ante), remained separated from the dean until last month. By that time Dean Noe had embarked upon the course which doctors and friends said last week could end only in death or forced feeding...
...second time within a month, Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, inventor's heiress who two years ago sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation, was separated from her garageman husband, Ronald Gay. Gay went home to his mother; his wife sent packing after him-her engagement ring, but not her wedding ring, for which she said she herself had paid. Both talked of impending divorce. Said he: "I have been a husband and at the same time a stranger in her home. If we ever go back together-and I sincerely hope we can work this thing...
...just stepped in as general manager of the six Northwest units of the Scripps League of Newspapers, including the Portland News-Telegram had to abruptly turn his attention from what he had thought was .going to be his big job, the Seattle Star, embattled by a six-month Guild strike...