Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rock Hotel for the liner Orford to take him to England. The British Government avoided unnecessary trouble with Italy by announcing that the bearded Lion of Judah would travel to England incognito, would receive no royal honors. For Saturday breakfast Haile Selassie looked with disfavor at a plate of kippered herring, called instead for bacon & eggs, U. S. style...
...could not discover a golf-course any where; but otherwise the Queen Mary seemed to me to be a well-found ship. . . [Passengers] will enjoy the brass plate [on the promenade deck] which charmingly records that Lord Burghley has made the circuit of that enormous area in 58 seconds [distance 570 yards] 'untrained and unchanged' - and, I believe, in evening dress...
Some anonymous admirer sent it through the mail to her, a little red collar with a name plate saying simply "Sarah"; and needless to say, she is very proud of it and is showing it off to everybody...
Married- William Bateman Leeds, 34, son & namesake of the late tin-plate tycoon; and Olive Hamilton, 23, onetime Atlantic City telephone operator; aboard Mr. Leeds's yacht Moana, off Miami. Since 1930, when he rescued her from, drowning at Atlantic City, N. J., they have been constant companions. His first wife was Russian Princess Xenia Romanov. Married. Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr, 64, author last year of a sensational biography of her dead husband, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age; and John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, 70; in Paris. Divorced. Crooner Rudy Vall...
...Other steel companies which followed U. S. Steel in granting paid vacations included Jones & Laughlin, American Sheet & Tin Plate, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Steelmen estimated that vacations would cost the industry $9,000,000. Ernest Tener Weir's Weirton Steel offered employes the choice of a paid vacation or double pay for working straight through...