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...powered with a motor to trundle him to the open air, organized a campaign to put down mosquitoes in Manhattan, pushed the fund-raising campaign that got floodlighting for the Statue of Liberty. At 58 he found time to marry 40-year-old Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, relict of an International Harvester official. He reputedly spent $250,000 on the Washington debut of his stepdaughter in the depth of Depression I. Sickly, he twice explained profitable sales of his Cities Service stock, once during a bear raid, and again to his employes, by intimating in Government investigations and in court...
...Paul last week Mrs. Frank Kellogg, relict of Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Ambassador to Great Britain, talked like a loyal wife. Referring to her husband's belief that "the world had at last reached a stage of civilized thought which ... abhorred armed conflict," she asked: "How can it be otherwise than that enduring peace will at last-and shortly-triumph...
Married. Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, 48, relict of Portugal's King Manuel; to Scots-descended Swedish Count Robert Douglas, 59; at Langen-stein, Baden, Germany...
...Pennsylvania's cinema censors, plump and pretty Peggy Palmer, relict of the late Red-baiting U. S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, last January got the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy banned. Ever since then, said she, Communists (especially "a dark, unshaven man with a short, horrible cigar in his mouth") have tracked her, muttered threats, once threw acid at her, tried to get into her hotel room. Cracked Liberal Lawyer Louis F. McCabe, who is carrying the cinema ban to the State Supreme Court: "A woman as charming as Mrs. Palmer might be annoyed by mashers at any time...
...pathologists working for the Food & Drug Administration definitely declared that the 73 deaths traced to Dr. Massengill's Elixir were due to diethylene glycol, not the sulfanilamide. Last week these results were confirmed by Washington University investigators. Simultaneously, Dr. Massengill began settling the damage suits which many a relict of an elixir victim has brought against him. Top price to date...