Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flayed Germany's "direct breach of good faith" and, after rehearsing the many moves of smart Dr. Schacht to beat Germany's creditors down, concluded by comparing him to "the murderer who, having slain both his parents, pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan." In the general burst of temper small notice was taken of the moratorium facts:. 1) Germany suspends from July i until further notice transfers into foreign currencies of interest on her medium and long term debts, including the Dawes Loan 7% and the Young Loan 5½% series...
Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud...
Stingarce (RKO-Radio) is an Australian bandit (Richard Dix) of the 1870's, named after a barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
...Brooklyn, neighbors found Mrs. Delia Tully, 73, keeping solitary vigil beside her four-day dead husband-"just waiting." In Kapuskasing, Ontario, neighbors found the three orphan children of Henry Myllmaa keeping solitary house, their father's corpse in the summer kitchen. Explained the children: "Father's been dead six weeks...
...official school records, is 12, not 11; her date of birth was June 17, 1921. Her family are wealthy, but can hardly claim to be "aristocrats among Creeks" in any other sense, for they are not leaders or prominent people in the tribe. The McClish boy is an orphan, so his parents did not "readily give consent" to the marriage. His guardian objected, and would have preferred to have him punished by imprisonment for his act, but the girl's representative's reached the judge first and obtained the marriage order. The boy is known as a degenerate...