Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt asked them what they had done so far to justify Congress' seven months sojourn in Washington. Speaker Bankhead started to rattle off a list of bills passed-bills for the most part neither important nor publicly known. The President squelched him with a roar of laughter. Presently the visitors came out and gave the press a list of five bills to be acted on before adjournment...
...earnest student, a meticulous conductor with a clean, unmannered beat, they find him immature, often maladroit in sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...
...welterweight champion of the world; to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 43, cousin of Humorist Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...
Left, By Inventor Guglielmo Marconi: an estimated $25,000,000, of which the bulk goes to Maria Elettra Elena, his seven-year-old daughter by his second wife, the former Countess Marie Bezzi...
Died-Vivian Burnett, 61, writer, editor, second son of Author Frances Hodgson Burnett for whose famed Little Lord Fauntleroy he was the inspiration and model; in Manhasset, N. Y. When he was seven, Vivian Burnett suggested to his mother that she write books for children like himself. That this prompted her to produce the book that set fashions for a decade and that Vivian Burnett was the prototype of its hero, Authoress Burnett confessed 13 years later when her son was a member of the track team at Harvard. Said Vivian Burnett, who later became a reporter, an editor...