Word: st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor that Col. Lindbergh intended to come home started a few weeks ago in St. Louis. Major Albert Bond Lambert, one of the backers of the 1927 flight, announced that he had received a letter in which the Colonel said he hoped to be in St. Louis "very soon." A New York Times reporter named Lauren Lyman, who acted as Colonel Lindbergh's "go-between" with the press during the Hauptmann trial and later broke the news of the Lindbergh decision to live abroad, has been the newspaper world's best authority on all Lindbergh activities. Transferred...
...entertainers have ever had the success on Continental stages of honey-skinned, good-natured Josephine Baker. Born in St. Louis 30-odd years ago of an allegedly white father & a colored washerwoman, Josephine's education stopped with grade school. At the age of 14 she was already hoofing in second-rate St. Louis vaudeville houses, where she met and married one Billy Baker, a tap dancer who brought her to New York and eventually found her a job in the chorus of the No. 2 road company of Shuffle Along. In Philadelphia, fame came to her one evening when...
...Premier George Tatarescu put their heads together. The Premier handed His Majesty the Cabinet's resignation, and the Cabinet was then immediately reformed under Premier Tatarescu-without Foreign Minister Titulescu. At about the same time M. Titulescu began feeling queer, and soon eight doctors were working frantically at St. Moritz to save the great Rumanian statesman from death by poison...
...Catholic Futurist, not tied to any age," said an aging but still voluble divine in Manhattan last week. The Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, 69, was retiring after 26 years of service at the Episcopal Church of St. Marks-in-The Bouwerie on the lower East Side...
Last Sunday Dr. Guthrie bade St. Marks good-by with a tour of its grounds, which date from 1660, when Peter Stuyvesant worshipped there, later to be buried in the churchyard, in which Rector Guthrie still later kept a pair of peafowl. Two Sundays ago in his sermon Dr. Guthrie paid his respects to Bishop William Thomas Manning with whom he had often clashed-"with him came the bigness of head that goes with new office"-and to the Episcopal Church into which he was born: "I don't know any church I could stand as well...