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Arrested in New York on two grand larceny indictments was eccentric Jeanette M. Lewis, 50, stocky, grey-haired onetime Greenwich Village restaurant cook who was given a loud hail ("Savior of Labrador") and quick farewell by the Press when she offered to lend Newfoundland $109,000.000 during its 1931 financial crisis (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). A Brooklyn druggist said he had paid her $4,000 for a quarter-interest in twelve Newfoundland mines, later found they were owned by Montreal's Henry Cosgrove Bellew. Snapped Financier Lewis, leaving court: "When I get ready to talk there will be plenty...
...bottle to save the lives and strengthen the bodies of their babies, and most of it has been coming from Norway duty free. But now the delegates of the British Government have agreed at Ottawa to impose a tariff of 45% on cod-liver oil for the benefit of Newfoundland...
...With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached. To celebrate they changed the journal's name to National Home Monthly. Subscribers had been tracked down by the hundreds throughout the verdant Eastern Provinces and as far as cold grey Newfoundland...
Died. James Patrick Silo, 44, Manhattan art dealer and auctioneer; of a heart attack; aboard S. S. Fort St. George, near St. John's, Newfoundland...
...other members of the triumvirate which British newspapers have called "The Busy B's''?Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin and Australia's former Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce. Down the table were former Premier Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand, Sir Atul Chatterjee of India, Premiers Frederick Charles Alderdice of Newfoundland. Howard Unwin Moffat of Southern Rhodesia, Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga of South Africa and Vice President Sean Thomas O'Kelly of the Irish Free State. Before them were twelve bundles of closely-typewritten paper representing twelve bilateral trade agreements over a five-year trial period?the result of four weeks...