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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought the tax bill was sound in aim. Many considered it half-baked but relatively harmless. Some expected to profit by it. And most of those who expected to be pinched by higher taxes were either resigned to their fate or convinced of the uselessness of complaint. Therefore only twice during last week's hearings were committee ears held close enough to the grindstone to be rubbed red by its rough contact...
...Council shall meet at least twice in each academic term after proper notification by the secretary. The President shall be empowered to call special meetings...
...seamy, saturnine man of 50, Captain Lehmann's career makes him fully equipped to command Germany's greatest airship. A naval architect on Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff, he was operating the dirigible Sachsen when the War began. As a raider, he bombed Antwerp once, London twice, afterwards claimed he could have destroyed the British capital completely if the Germans had so desired. Once he went home with 400 bullet holes in his ship's fabric. Continuing in the profession after the War, he rose to be assistant director of the Zeppelin works, alternated with...
Sonja Henie (pronounced to rhyme with penny) says she decided to turn professional for two reasons: 1) as long as she had to practice twice a day, shun smoking and drinking, abide the stares of the curious, she might as well get something out of it besides entertainment and silverware; 2) hers is a consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson...
...over the big Wagner orchestra. Generous Cincinnati critics credited her with having made a promising start in opera. Newshawks made much of the facts that she had once won a bathing beauty contest (in 1929), when she was a high-school student in Bessemer, Mich., that she had twice been invited to join the Follies. Such publicity found little favor with the Gorman family which comes from proud old Gloucester fishing stock. Inez Gorman's grandfather was the late Captain John Evans Gorman. Inez Gorman's father left the sea for music, studied at the New England Conservatory...