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...business of supplying daily reading matter to every other literate Philadelphian ds not Publisher Martin's only chore. He is a trustee of Equitable Trust Co. (Manhattan), director in the Philadelphia National Bank, president of Benjamin Franklin Realty Corp., vice president of Edgewood Investing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Again, Curtis-Martin | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...West Palm Beach, James H. R. Cromwell, son of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, famed Philadelphian, posed with his mother, wearing a silk bathrobe ornamented with nude women and nymphs, then dropped the bathrobe. Attired in shorts and boxing shoes he boxed before a gallery of debutantes with Tommy Loughran, once light-heavyweight champion of the world, who wore the proper costume for boxers in training-a headguard and gym tights. Loughran refrained from knocking Cromwell out during the bout, at the end of which Cromwell was given the decision, by prearrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cromwell v. Loughran | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

Decorated. Rev. William Chauncey Emhardt, Ph. D., 56, Philadelphian, member of the National Council, Protestant Episcopal Church, chairman of the American Hellenic Committee for the Centenary of Greek Independence; by the Greek Government; with the Gold Cross of Officer of the Order of the Redeemer, oldest of Greek orders; for valuable services to Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections in Nicaragua. The fellow we had in there nobody liked, 'but he was a useful fellow- to us ... so we declared the opposition candidates bandits. Then 400 natives were found who would vote for the proper candidate. Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Again, Butler | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...escorted Crone from the field, held him in $5,000 bail for manslaughter. On Oct. 20, 1910, the Chicago Tribune published on its front page, surrounded by a heavy black margin, a brief obituary surmounted by an urn and supported by a wreath. Last week, by request of a Philadelphian, the Tribune published the same obituary: HOPE-Beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fan of this city departed this life yesterday afternoon at the West Side Ball Park after a lingering illness of nine innings. She was attended by thirty thousand physicians who did all in their power to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport Notes, Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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