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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nurse's Friend. After hundreds of people had been fruitlessly questioned by police throughout the U. S. concerning the kidnapping, search narrowed down to persons surrounding the person who last saw Charles Augustus, namely, Nurse Gow. It was discovered that on the day of the abduction she had twice communicated by telephone with one Henry ("Red") Johnson, a deckhand in the summertime aboard the yacht of Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner and good friend of Charles Augustus' late grandfather, Dwight Whitney Morrow. Henry Johnson and Nurse Gow had been friends for three years. He was promptly apprehended in Hartford, Conn...
...swivel-chair administrator, Assistant Secretary Young traveled 30,000 mi. last year, boarded a train only twice. Mostly he journeys in the Department of Commerce Ford NS-1 which, equipped in club-car fashion with a desk and radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side...
Died. Joseph M. ("Little Joe") Brown, So, twice Governor of Georgia; after a long illness; in Marietta, Ga. His political tussles with the late Hoke Smith for party leadership kept Georgia Democrats in turmoil for 25 years. In 1928 Brown and Smith were finally reconciled in support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Undersized...
...forwards, in the event of failure to get through to the second line. In this way the Harvard defense was left with merely a routing assignment. That this new policy was successful was evidenced in the manner in which the team swept through its Olympic matches and sank Princeton, twice victor over Yale...
...weeks space Cambridge has twice has an opportunity to see to what lengths beings the wife of a professor will drive a leading lady. In "Uncle Vanya," which the Studio Players recently put on, and in "Hedda Gabbler", which Blanche Yurka opened Monday night, the lady becomes so bored with her existence that she makes a plot for Chekov or for Ibsen. Perhaps because, in the pattern of an older generation, there were no clubs or sports to keep women busy, or because they congenitally lacked any insight or interest in research before the days of women's colleges, their...