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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week for the last lap of a 9,000-mile voyage of life & death. Frisky, unconcerned, he carried in his right lung a 3-in. packing nail which he had gulped down 18 months ago. Unless it came out, Australian doctors agreed, Baby Rodgers' days were numbered. Twice they attempted to remove the nail without a Chevalier Jackson bronchoscope. Both attempts failing, they wrote to Dr. Jackson. He told them to send the child to Philadelphia, that the nail would be removed gratis. Soon Kelvin Arthur Rodgers and his pleasant young mother, wife of a $20-a-week...
...Allied statesmen tried to evolve from the War a neat, tight, old-fashioned victory settlement with Germany. At these doomed gatherings, now being repudiated by a fresh generation of statesmen, there was no more familiar sight than the large red beard of the amiable British Bohemian, George Slocombe. Twice, he claims in The Tumult & the Shouting, he personally contrived to bring about historic meetings between hostile statesmen: 1) at Geneva in 1927, between Russia's Litvinoff and Britain's Austen Chamberlain; 2) at The Hague in 1929 between France's Briand and Britain's Philip Snowden...
...spite of the "administrative responsibilities" of the past 16 years, Scripps-Howard's Howard has nevertheless managed to keep a dramatic hand in "national and international relationships." In the past three years he has circled the globe twice. The last junket, from which he returned last April, kept him away from home eight months. That he was earning his salary every minute he was absent, no one can deny. As he stepped on the boat at San Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase...
...barber in our neighborhood who used to give Walter 25? a week for a picture, something about his barbershop. Walter was seven or eight years old then. He paid for his haircuts that way. . . . Walter is a poor hand to write. We just hear from him about twice a year...
...assets ($11,500,000) as in sales ($8,000,000 last year) GTI is about twice as big as its nearest competitor, E. Ingraham Co. of Bristol, Conn., makers of Ingersoll watches. Other big clockmakers are New Haven Clock Co., Waterbury Clock Co. and Warren-Telechron, which is now a General Electric subsidiary. Waterbury makes electric clocks for Westinghouse. In a normal year the clock industry sells $35,000,000 worth of time instruments. but "normal" is now only a sweet memory. In 1932 the figure was down to approximately $13,000,000. Last year it was around...