Word: munro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While motoring to Boston, where he is working for his father's Colonial-Beacon Oil Co., Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., ran out of gasoline on a road near Hingham, Mass., had to be pushed. Off to Petersham, Mass, went Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of New York with a copy of James Joyce's famed Ulysses, long barred from the U. S. as ''immoral and licentious." He will spend his vacation reading it, decide whether it may be published in a U. S. edition...
After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...
...Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis; and Evelyn Ames, 23 daughter of Botany Professor Oakes Ames of Harvard; in North Easton, Mass. Married. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso (Ingram), 40, widow of Enrico Caruso; and Dr. Charles Adams Holder, 60, inhabitant of Paris; in Paris. Married. Martha Munro Ferguson. 25, daughter of Arizona's famed, comely Mrs. Isabella Greenway whose glamorous history includes ranching, cattle-raising, copper-mining, acting as bridesmaid for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, seconding the Roosevelt nomination in Chicago; and Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; at Mrs. Greenway's ranch near...
...forty-fifth annual Spring production, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present "The Watched Pot" by Saki (H. H. Munro) tonight and tomorrow night at Brattle Hall. The play will be in three acts, with the curtain rising at 8.30 o'clock...
...Mind-Reader (Warner). Chandra Chandler (Warren William), alias Chandra the Great, Dr. Munro and the Great Divoni, starts as a fortune-teller in county fairs. He marries a smalltown girl (Constance Cummings), gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling brushes. His assistant (Allen Jenkins) functions as an impudent chauffeur who gathers from the councils of his confreres in garages the information that enables Chandra to become a highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends...