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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Syracuse, N...
Sued for divorce in Trenton, N. J. last week was President Peter C. Christensen of Button Corp. of America, his wife charging that he had lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains...
...Cattell printed no comment. Sequestered last week at his home in Garrison, N. Y., the old psychologist said he would make no public rebuttal, but asserted, as he has done before, that voting on star candidates is a more precise determination of scientific merit than election to the National Academy of Sciences, No. 1 U. S. learned body...
...Manhattan. Drawn in Texas in 1908-nine years before his marriage - the 180-word document left Colonel Green's entire estate to Mother Hetty, or in case of her death, to Sister Hetty." This will Mrs. Wilks filed for probate in the Surrogate Court of Essex County, N. Y. in which Lake Placid is located. Represented by the potent Manhattan law "firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb, Sister Hetty said that her brother had not been a resident of New York, but owned property there...
Other Freshmen who took part: Peter L. Bernstein, Parko N. Bossart, George F. Butterworth, 3rd, Jesse W. Croach, Jr., Robert B. Hayden, Robert L. Heilbroner, Albert H. Labastic, Frank L. McLanathan, John I. Mahler, Halford W. Park, John C. Perham, Fred A. Rico, Manning A. Williams and Massao Yatsuhashi...