Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned promptly to the man who had been sitting directly above the Premier all evening, President Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous...
...golfing Wethereds lost a fortune when Ivar Kreuger shot himself. Joyce Wethered went to work at Fortnum & Mason's, first advising customers about golf equipment and later, when she definitely gave up thought of remaining an amateur, selling clubs and giving demonstrations. Galleries who watch a player unique for the uncanny accuracy of her iron shots, which are the weak point in almost every other woman's game, are usually surprised, no matter how low Joyce Wethered's score is, because they expect it to be lower. Soberly Spinster Wethered, who holds the world's record...
With these and more unprintable comments, George Herman Ruth last week resigned from the Boston Braves with whom he signed a contract last February to perform as baseball player, assistant manager and vice president. His reasons: personal differences with the Braves' president, Judge Emil Fuchs, climaxed by Judge Fuchs's refusal to allow him to attend a party on board the S.S. Normandie (see p. 20) which Babe Ruth thought would be "a great thing for baseball." Judge Fuchs's reply: an unconditional release for Ruth, an offer to sell the team which he, says has cost...
...similar mood the League's reluctance to meddle in the private lives of her friends in Asia has already formed a none too bright chapter of world history. That Geneva will depart from this almost time-honored policy is hardly possible, especially with Mussolini being such a prominent player in the present chess game on the continent of Europe...
Divorced. Charles Ray, player of honest-farm-boy parts in oldtime silent films: by Mrs. Clara Grant Ray whom he married in 1915; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty, desertion, nonsupport. Died. John Coogan, father of retired Child Actor Jackie Coogan, 21; Junior Durkin, 19, actor (Huckleberry Finn, Little Men); and two others; when an automobile driven by the elder Coogan plunged down a mountain embankment; near San Diego, Calif. Son Coogan, only survivor of the accident, was injured. Died. Bronson Cutting, 46, U. S. Senator from New Mexico; in an airplane crash near Macon, Mo. (see p. 49). Member...