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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demotion of Defense Vice-Commissar Mikhail Nikolaivich Tukhachevsky (TIME, May 31). Gamarnik, 43, had been a member of the Communist Party since 1916. After the civil war he became head of all political work in the Red Army, was given the special title of "Military Commissar of the First Rank" when, in 1935, five generals were raised to the newly created rank of Marshal. After his death it was officially revealed that he was "connected with anti-Soviet elements...
Died. Jean Harlow, 26, platinum-blonde cinemactress; of cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), following acute uremia; in Hollywood's Good Samaritan Hospital. Christened Harlean Carpentier, reared in Kansas City, Jean Harlow became with Hell's Angels (1930), a top-rank star and the cinema's No. 1 symbol of sex appeal. She held her rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went...
...week season with conductors like Walter Damrosch, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Goossens, Carlos Chavez, Georges Enesco. Paul and Andrew Mellon pledged $30,000 to a $300,000 subscription drive. Although $200,000 were still wanting and their plans had not crystallized, the Board refused to continue Modarelli in a higher rank than assistant conductor, would not give him a definite conducting schedule. From Wheeling, W. Va., last week Conductor Modarelli wired his resignation. Said he: "The Board told me I had to take their plan or else-so I took or else...
Davis, who is an outstanding liberal, has been on the faculty of the School for twelve years. In 1924 he was appointed to the chair of practical philanthropy with the rank of assistant professor, rising in 1927 to the position of associate professor. February of this year the Yale Corporation voted to terminate his connection with the university after a one-year reappointment...
...fourth of the Journal's total stock, split 100 for 1 to convenient $35 units, was offered for sale to Journal employes of five years standing. Since 531 Journalists qualified, each employe received an initial stock quota of from $500 to $5,000, based on his pay & rank...