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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand time. There are no seats in a Russian church. For over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round the altar and sprinkled them with holy water, bride & groom stood, holding lighted candles. The bride swayed dangerously once or twice but did not collapse. Among the nine ushers who took turns holding gilt crowns over the heads of the couple were Prince Theodore of Russia, Serge Lifar, a dancer at the Paris opera, and three other Woolworth heirs, cousins of the bride: James Donahue, Woolworth Donahue, and Fraser McCann...
Whipped by a determined farmers' lobby the French Chamber spent 20 consecutive hours in anguished debate last week, then passed a bill to raise further the internal price of wheat, already selling in France for roughly twice the world price...
...Yingkow-Kaopangtze train on the South Manchuria Railway was twice held up last week. Two white Russian railway guards were killed, the train was looted and 52 passengers carried off for ransom...
...dark mustachioed 54-year-old Scotsman, the Hon. Michael Scott, fifth son of the third Earl of Eldon, uncle of the present Earl. He had long ago won the Australian Open twice and the Australian Amateur four times, but never an important tournament in England. His scrupulously courteous self-confidence indicated that he considered this a curious oversight which deserved to be corrected...
...Manhattan Publisher George Terry Dunlap, who learned his golf at Pinehurst, N. C., where his family has a cottage and where he has made a specialty of winning the Midwinter tournament. He went to Princeton for five years without graduating, captained the golf team, won the Intercollegiate twice. This winter, working for Hemphill, Noyes (stock-brokers), young Dunlap had small chance to practice golf. Three weeks before play at Hoylake started he began to think about entering the tournament, boarded a boat the next...