Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornelius Vander Starr, No. 1 life insurer in the Far East, real-estate speculator, owner of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury and a TiMEstyle China newsmagazine. East. Ten months ago the editor of Starr's Ta Mei Wan Pao, Chinese edition of the Evening Post & Mercury, was shot dead as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek. Last April Starr's newspaper plant was bombed, killing three Chinese and an Annamese policeman...
Died. Ellen Gates Starr, 80, co-founder with the late Jane Addams of Chicago's famed Hull House; after long illness; in Suffern...
...cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur and Open tournaments. Eugenie hats appeared, and so did the beautiful body of Starr Faithfull on a Long Island beach. Richard Whitney spoke in Philadelphia on "Business Honesty," while "in many pretty houses, wives who had never before-in the revealing current phrase-'done their own work' were cooking and scrubbing...
Died. Mrs. Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling, 73, American-born widow of English Rudyard Kipling; in her home, Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. Kipling was born Dec. 30, 1865, she Dec. 31, 1865; they were married Jan. 18, 1892; he died, with her at his bedside...