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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there slipped completely out of Leftist Spain and over into France three ragged, mud-bespattered Abies & Georgies whose shoes were coming to pieces and who appeared half-starved. The most communicative of these was John Gordon Honeycombe, 37, of Los Angeles, a former U. S. seaman born at Ilion, N. Y. "I remember the last thing my wife said to me when I left her and my six-year-old kid in Los Angeles," mused Mr. Honeycombe. "She said: 'You'll regret the day you left for Spain.' She was right! The whole Republican line -those that...
...last week 14 students of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute roved with studied aimlessness through the city of Troy, N. Y. Everywhere they went they collected pennies from shopkeepers and gasoline station attendants for a "penny-ante poker game." Other students marched in to Troy's four commercial banks, flourished paper currency, demanded change-in pennies. In one bank the manager reluctantly dumped 100,000 pennies into canvas bags, turned them over to students for $1,000 in bills.* A laundry truck driver toured the city collecting pennies from housewives. Unaware of this concerted raid until too late, merchants, housewives...
Sturdy, brown-skinned, brown-eyed Author Mumford has lived for two years in the little village of Leedsville, N. Y., 60 mi. north of Manhattan, in the low foothills of the Berkshires, with his handsome, even browner wife and two children, Geddes, 13, and Alison, three...
...Continued its broad attack upon vast American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Fortnight ago FCCommissioner Paul Walker submitted to Congress the result of his threeyear, $1,500,000 investigation of A. T. & T., recommended sweeping reforms (TIME, April n). For two months before this, A. T. & T. stock was under sharp market pressure, fell from $149 to $111. As soon as the Walker report was out, A. T. & T. bounced up $9.75 in two days. To FCC and SEC this looked suspicious; last week both launched investigations...
...mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower's reblossoming were thick around her wharf last week. But the 42-year-old beauty seemed doomed at last as final purchasers were announced, Virginia's Suffolk Scrap Iron & Metal...