Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Moulin, who quipped so brilliantly last week as the Lord High Executioner, found the part of the Duke less suited to his kind of clowning. He came rather lamely "From the Sunny Spanish Shore," returned more impressively in the Second Act "With Ducal Pomp and Ducal Pride," and at length struck the right note of whimsical sedateness as the "Courtier grave and serious...
Captain Henry S. Bauer of the Dollar Liner President Van Buren, endurance floating champion, went for a swim off Juhu, the Lido of Bombay. India. An off-shore current, too strong to swim against, carried him far to sea. Composing himself. Captain Bauer simply floated about waiting for a shoreward current, was picked up after several hours by fishermen...
...night of last April's primary in Illinois, James Simpson Jr.. 27, towheaded, horse-fancying son of the then chairman of Marshall Field & Co.. thought he had won the Republican nomination for Congress in the Suburban loth ("North Shore") district. In May the official count gave the nomination to State Representative Ralph Church by 73 votes. A recount failed to change the outcome. Mr. Simpson took his case to court, was last week declared winner by 45 votes. Candidate Church announced he would run independently in November on the issue of whether Nominee Simpson should "be sent...
Other Insull developments last week included receivership of Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee, model Insull-controlled interurban electric line. The road was unable to pay interest and taxes. Meanwhile, as State and Federal inquiries continued, louder & louder grew the clamor for the return of Samuel Insull and his son from Paris, of Martin John Insull from Canada. Each of them last week received a communication from State's Attorney John A. Swanson: "Revelations . . . disclosed by my investigation make it imperative that you return . . . for questioning. Advise by cable if you will return voluntarily...
...Chicago, apartments are about 22½% lower than in 1929. But many smart buildings are almost filled, their apartments renting at better prices than corresponding Manhattan ones. In Chicago's swank Lake Shore Drive district a six-room apartment in the building where lives Samuel Insull Jr. (who has rented three-fourths of his duplex) was recently rented for $300, while a four-room one in the building called "home" by Auburn's Errett Lobban Cord costs $200 against the former price of $300. In the cheaper apartments of from $50 to $80 a month there is only...