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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Gustave Frohman, 75, oldtime theatrical producer, tour manager for William Gillette, Margaret Anglin, Maude Adams, John Drew, onetime office boy of Horace Greeley, brother of Producer Daniel Frohman; after a four-week illness; at his home in Manhattan...
Army. To tall, slender, handsome Maj.-General Douglas MacArthur, 50, youngest of first-rank officers, the President gave the appointment of Chief of Staff for a four-year tour of duty. With the job goes the courtesy rank of full general (four silver shoulder stars, a salute of 17 guns). Soldierly son of a Civil War father (Lieut.-General Arthur MacArthur), the new Chief was born in barracks at Little Rock, Ark., went to West Point as soon as he could. There he was senior-year (1903) cadet-captain, popular, a baseball adept. Graduated into the Corps of Engineers...
...crazy spin, crashed through the top of a steel gas tank, plunged into 40 ft. of water at the bottom, killed Pilot Orville Suchy and two joyride girl passengers. European Derby. Pilot Fritz Morzik of Germany, who last year won the International Around-Europe Reliability Tour for light planes, was last week declared winner of this year's 4,750-mi. derby...
Some of the 60 contestants (British. French, Spanish, Polish, one U. S.) voiced objection to the method of scoring, claimed undue weight was placed upon finicky technical tests. Britain's Capt. Hubert S. Broad finished the tour first, but was relegated to eighth place...
Chief Woodcock is a lieutenant colonel in the Army reserve. His meeting of administrators and agents was delayed while he took a tour of active duty. Fresh from camp, he announced the almost military organization he had devised for his Bureau, asked that it be considered "a division in the general army against crime...