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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class ranked highest. At the top from the standpoint of per capita income were the Newtons, Boston suburbs, followed by Hartford, Conn.; Easton, Pa., and Cambridge, Mass. At the bottom in income were Augusta, Ga.; Evansville, Ind.; Kansas City, Kans.; Bay City, Mich.; Joplin, Mo.; and Camden, N...
...When he was managing a canal company, Wistar called on President Ulysses S. Grant at Long Beach, N. J. to protest against what he considered oppressive tax maneuvers engaged in by the Secretary of the Treasury. During the conversation Grant asked: "General Wistar, have you any friends in Philadelphia who would buy that cottage across the road? I am very anxious to dispose of it." Wistar, suspecting that he was being felt out for a bribe, departed indignantly...
Divorced. Mrs. Margot Einstein Marianoff of Princeton, N. J., daughter of Scientist Professor Albert Einstein, by a preliminary decree from Dmitri Marianoff, writer, on the grounds of desertion...
Whatever Tobacco Road has, it is something other than the sentimentality of Abie's Irish Rose, or of Lightnin' (1,291 performances). It is physically and verbally as dirty as any play U. S. playgoers have seen. In 13 cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...
...various affiliated and subsidiary associations, will come more and more important men than ever before in this always impressive event's 42-year history. For this year's session of the Congress of Industry has aroused more interest, both business and political, than any since N. A. M. was founded in 1895. It did so because most of its members believed the opportunity predicted by Mr. Chester-the moment when Recovery leadership would be transferred or passed by default to Business- was clearly at hand...