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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking the express highway familiar to thousands of motorists bound for South Jersey's shore resorts, the Valiant turned down U. S. Route No. 9, preceded by an automobile to clear traffic. The coach tooled along at a fine rate to the leafy little hamlet of Marlboro, site of the second change. At Freehold the party paused for luncheon, just two miles short of the best hamburg stand between Newark and Cape May. Tearing through Toms River, but not fast enough to become enmeshed in the speed traps just south of that place or embroiled with the neighborhood...
When the towering Scot, followed by his 6-ft. lady, stepped off the gangplank of the Strathmore, the white warships of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay harbor crashed out a 31-gun salute.* Shore batteries replied with 31 more reports. Under the dockside Arch of Bombay, called the "Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard...
Captain January (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the story of a poor little foundling (Shirley Temple) washed up on the New England shore and adopted by a kindly lighthouse keeper (Guy Kibbee). Approaching her seventh birthday, the foundling is an extraordinary child. When she wakes she yodels a little song called Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken...
From the instant the Potomac touched shore, the President plunged into the real game of politics. Waiting for him at Fort Lauderdale were Governors McNutt of Indiana and Sholtz of Florida. Next day at Warm Springs, Ga. his political business was with Archibald D. Lovett and Marion H. Allen, anti-Talmadge leaders in Georgia...
...Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist Alderson, his wife and his three children had lived on diets drawn up for families of five by the Nassau County Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, at a total cost of $8.20 per week. Their object...