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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the directors of the project, which will be known as the "Bear Camp Tramway," are Gov. Francis P. Murphy, Sen. H. Styles Bridges, and Attorney Charles M. Dale, president, a member of the Governor's Council...
Died. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, 71, multimillionaire president of Ruppert Brewing Co., since 1915 owner of the world champion New York Yankees; after long illness; in Manhattan (see p...
Pius XI, head of the Roman Catholic Church, last week received Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain. Fresh from visits with Benito Mussolini (see p. 18), Mr. Chamberlain was received with private pomp in the Vatican. What the Pope and the Prime Minister said in their half-hour chat remained officially undisclosed. Unofficially the Pontiff was reported to have pressed on the Prime Minister documents dealing with the destruction of Catholic lives and property in Loyalist Spain, and declared that, "as a means of restoring Christianity" to Spain, the Holy See put its hopes in a Franco victory. Mr. Chamberlain...
Died. Herman Oliphant, 54, general counsel to the U. S. Treasury since 1934; of heart disease; in Washington (see p...
...married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk. On it he wrote As I Lay Dying, rewrote Sanctuary, laid out his series of connected novels dealing with the mythical, haunted, decadent Southern town of Jefferson...