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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once in 1,400 well-chosen words, addressed to the Mexican Ambassador, Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Nájera, did Secretary Hull so much as mention oil wells, gold mines or vast ranches. Experts of the State Department had supplied figures on Mexican expropriations of small farm holdings as far back as 1915. But before he mentioned even these, Secretary Hull went into a juicy preamble about the sympathy of aims existing between President Cárdenas' new deal for Mexico and President Roosevelt's New Deal for the U. S.: "The issue is not whether Mexico should...
Married. Grace Vanderbilt Davis, only daughter of Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt, divorced wife of Henry Gassaway Davis III; * to Robert Livingston Stevens, whose grandfather founded Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.; in Ridgewood, N...
Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house...
Died. Robert Burns Robertson, 76, longtime (1912-26) resident architect of Windsor Castle, onetime (1923-24) president of the Windsor & Eton Scientific and Archaeological Society; of heart disease; in Mount Vernon, N...
Last week, in a novel called Seek-No-Further, Author Constance Robertson told the story of Temple Commune in Jericho Centre, N. Y. The Temple was a group of 65 farmers who worked hard all day and in the evening held canning bees and seancés. Its women wore short tunics and ankle-length bloomers instead of world's clothes: hoop skirts and petticoats. Its men feared God and would do anything in the world for old Father Swann, once he got talking. The main building where the Templers slept had an elaborate lacy cornice and rounded corners...