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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dressed him fastidiously, left him in the Fairbanks stateroom with a message wishing the couple "a goose of a good time." Jo-Jo was not returned before train time. His owner grew worried, threatened to sue Jokester Grauman for $2,500. Jokester Grauman, flustered, wired Mr. Fairbanks at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "Hope you had a good laugh with the goose. Please ship him back immediately as he is Jo-Jo, the screen actor, and his owner wants him for picture work...
...Steel Corp.; to be a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, succeeding the late Manhattan capitalist Ogden Mills. Reelected. John Jacob Raskob of Wilmington, Del., chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer, 29, of Manhattan, wife of Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Hearstpaper funnyman; of typhoid fever; in Manhattan...
Died. Martin Maloney, So, of "Ballangarry," Spring Lake, N. J., utilities tycoon, Papal Marquis, onetime breaker-boy in Scranton's anthracite mines; when France passed laws forbidding religious orders to own property, Mr. Maloney bought nunneries and monasteries so the inhabitants could remain. He had a plan to settle the trouble between the Popes and Italy by buying a corridor of land from the Vatican to the sea. Pope Leo XIII made him a Papal Marquis, highest title ever given a U. S. layman...
...teacher, to get sympathy): "You don't know my father. He'll beat me with an iron chain, yes, sir! an iron chain, 'n after all I'm only a little...
...Pennsylvania diocese, by no means desperate but evidently spurred by their necessity, announced the election of yet another man. Turning again to New England, they had singled out, for their fifth choice, Headmaster (Dr.) Samuel Smith Drury of famed, old-established St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H., largest Episcopal private school...