Word: novas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cyrus Stephen Eaton is a well-dressed, frosty-eyed financier of 56. He left his native home in bleak Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to study for the Baptist ministry. In Cleveland in 1925 he dramatized his power to refinance Trumbull Steel Co. by proving to its officers that Cleveland Trust Co. would honor his check for $20,000,000. By 1930 he was instrumental in forming the No. 3 steel Company (by mergers built on Republic), was sitting on the boards of 20 great corporations (utilities, steel, paints, hotels). That year he helped undermine the foundation of the tottering Insull empire...
...Tennessee has just attained to the major league of college football this year, then the Yankees were unheard of before their invasion of Cincinnati and Joe Louis was just another Detroit boy with a bad temper before he pommelled Lou Nova...
...Dewey now spends his summers in Nova Scotia, his winters in a Manhattan apartment with his youngest daughter. His favorite hobby is solving acrostic puzzles with his family. He also likes to read detective stories, fancies himself as a farmer. But John Dewey spends most of his time thinking. Father of six children (two died young and he adopted another), he early learned to concentrate on his work amidst domestic bustle. To his classes he lectured in a monotonous voice, made no rhetorical effort whatever to interest his audience. Once, after droning on to graduate students for three solid hours...
Married. Frederick Penrose Tennyson, 26, cinema director, great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Nova Pilbeam, 19, British cinemactress (Little Friend, Nine Days a Queen); in London...
...announced that the suit was bought in 1936. Then he amazed the correspondents. He announced, as a matter of public information, that two foreign submarines had been sighted in U. S. waters. One was off the boundary point of Alaska and Canada, the other somewhere off Boston, midway between Nova Scotia and Nantucket...