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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might select. He promptly announced that he would go to the University of Minnesota. Runner-up Kenneth Richardson, 12, of Detroit and John Sigmans, 12, of Bethlehem, Pa., who came in third, each won a Chevrolet coach which they are too young legally to operate. Coaster Ballard then went on to win another silver...
...their own lunches and dinners to the Exposition last week, staying all day to get maximum money's worth for the admission charge of six francs (25?). Smart U. S. citizens just landed from the French Line's Normandie, jampacked last week the Exposition's small, select Restaurant La Normandie. whose manager is the ship's Associate Purser John Henry. Smartest large restaurant is Le Roi George with two orchestras and Maitre d'Hotel Albert of Maxim's. Swankly atop the Pavilion d'Elegance perches the Ritz-Hotel-managed Club des Oiseaux (Birds...
Since 1910 the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund has insured clergy of all Protestant denominations, has about 12,500 policyholders with more than $60,000,000 insurance in force. It is governed by 60 '"corporators" who elect their own successors, select 18 of their number each year to serve as directors of the Fund. The directors elect the executive officers. WThen Corporator John Wanamaker tried 40 years ago to swing the Fund's business into the general life insurance field he was soundly beaten...
Racing for the America's Cup starts with a challenge to the New York Yacht Club, custodian of yachting's No. 1 trophy since 1857. It continues, when the challenge is accepted, with trials to select a defender. For the past month, in light, warm winds, three candidates for the honor of defending the America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials...
Officials of the select club called on the President, who has been a member since its foundation eight years ago, to ask whether he would not like to go down there for a weekend of political conferences as he has before (TIME, July 22, 1935 et ante). And if so, what Party leaders would he like invited? The President beamed. Every Democrat in Congress is a Party leader, let all (407) be invited, including the nine male members of the Cabinet. That would be a big party, but they could manage it by holding a three-day week end. There...