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Divorced. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, Republican National Chairman, by Laura Hall Hamilton; in Topeka, Kans. Charges: "Gross neglect of duty, abandonment for more than a year...
Month ago at the Sinnissippi farm of onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank Orren Lowden, near Oregon, Ill., the two Republican chieftains met and announced that they were "in agreement on every essential problem." This meant that they were not prepared to disagree in public. However, last fortnight in Topeka, Alf Landon called a national radio mass-meeting, spoke his mind on the state of the Union for half an hour (TIME, Nov. 1), without so much as a lukewarm mention for Herbert Hoover's biggest political plan. Last week, addressing a meeting of 3,000 Republicans in Boston...
...given precedence on the ticker, one at a time, every 30 seconds, each preceded by the word FLASH. These up-to-date figures sprinkled through the bulk of late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...
Billed as "champion" since she threw Topeka's Barbara Ware in 1932, Sister Mortensen wrestles three or four times a week, has netted $37,000 since her present tour began four months ago. Showmanship of her manager, Bill Lewis, is such that he grew a set of silky black whiskers in order to name himself "Bluebeard...
...devotees include a number of cinema people, notably Wallace Beery and Rod La Rocque, Vincent Astor is another. The finest model systems in the U. S. are credited to Minton Cronkhite of San Marino, Calif., who rides in the cabs of real locomotives whenever he can. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R. R. frequently borrows Mr. Cronkhite's equipment for its displays at fairs. The national association got under way three years ago, pushed by groups of Detroit modelers who believed that such an organization would impel manufacturers to a helpful standardization of parts. This turned...