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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well. It was just a matter of time before island gossips had something more than rumor to wag their tongues over: Hannes and Christiane ran off together. But that was no life for Hannes who was a bachelor farmer by blood, and he left Christiane to rescue his rundown farm. Too late he found that she meant more to him than anything. After their child was born dead Christiane returned to her husband, Hannes to his haunted farm...
widow of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fractured hip (TIME, Nov. 25); Daughter-in-Law Mrs. Grace Lockwood Roosevelt, of appendicitis; Granddaughter Sarah Alden Derby, of "rundown condition" following an appendix operation last spring; all on the same floor of a Glen Cove, L. I., hospital...
...Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder of Ashford. first attended to a minor ailment, a hard, pusfilled whitlow on the Prime Minister's finger. When this had been lanced and half a fingernail removed, Lord Horder insisted on going thoroughly over his patient. The eyes were indeed weak; general condition, rundown. Meekly James Ramsay MacDonald assented when Lord Horder told him he must positively quit London at once without waiting for Parliament to rise in August...
...release of scraggly, dim-witted Richard Dana, 62, nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, and his guardian, Octavia Dockery, 61, daughter of a Confederate brigadier, once members of Natchez, Miss's oldtime gentility, who inhabit a rundown, goat-and-pig infested plantation, "Glenwood." outside Natchez, after their arrest on suspicion of murdering their neighbor, a well-to-do recluse named Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, daughter of President U. S. Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last...
...John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, of influenza in London; Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton, of two broken fingers caught in an automobile door in Los Angeles; Senator Robert B. Howell of Nebraska, of "rundown condition" in Washington, D. C.; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Panama, of stomach trouble in Washington, D. C.; Herbert Nathan Straus, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan drygoods); after a heart attack in Manhattan...