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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nan Duces (Gerard Smith, Cyril Harrison, Lieut. McDonald Jones): the National Indoor Polo championship, beating the Optimists (Raymond Guest, Winston Guest, Stewart Iglehart) 8 to 5 in a rough, fast game in Manhattan in which Winston Guest, outdoor internationalist, scored six goals, two of which were wiped out by fouls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Won | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...radical propagandist, to lecture on Communism in his East Orange, N. J. home but the meeting was thwarted by police. In 1918 he converted his home into a hospital for wounded soldiers, cared for 1,000 in three years. Last year in Manhattan, he entertained at a large dinner Nan Britton and her ("The President's") daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Scene: The drawing room of the late Queen Anne ("Brandy Nan") in St. James's Palace, into which the London Naval Conference moved last winter after being opened by His Majesty in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords and into which the Indian Round Table Conference moved last week, having also been opened by George V fortnight ago in the Royal Gallery (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Indian Conference: Act II | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement of last week: "For a lovely chummy pal. write Nan Bell, National Park, N. J. (Stamp, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Barbers' Bible | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

...White House scene. Means was next sent to secure Harding presents to the mother and daughter and bring them back to Mrs. Harding, evidence to confront her husband with his alleged infidelity. On Mrs. Harding's order, Means declares he investigated President Harding's capacity as a father and Nan Britton's past life. He reported that a specialist said Harding could have had children, that Nan Britton had had no other known lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ohio Gangster | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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