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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again, Ewald. A jury last week dead locked and was dismissed after hearing evidence that George F. Ewald, with the aid of his pretty wife, had bought a magis tracy for $10,000 from Tammany underlings. Twice before had other juries dead locked on this case. Hiram C.Todd, special State prosecutor, agreed to the dismissal of the Ewalds' indictments, on the ground that the juries' failure to agree "fairly represents the present state of the collective conscience of the community in cases of this character." Revived was the old political axiom of New York: A Tammany man cannot be convicted...
Died. Alma Rubens, 33, cinemactress (Humoresque, The Valley of Silent Men, Enemies of Women); of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Famed for her dark beauty, she married thrice (Actor Franklyn Farnum, Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, Actor Ricardo Cortez), divorced twice. Some years ago she became addicted to narcotics, appeared seldom thereafter in the cinema. Last month she was arrested in San Diego, charged with possession of narcotics, released on $5,000 bail...
...territory was considered too competitive for invasion, and early in 1929 Richfield entered New York-New England. Although smaller producers were bought, Richfield could not keep up with its sales and had to buy petroleum on contract from other companies. Richfield's buying contracts made other companies think twice about buying Richfield when the time came. Mr. McDuffie, president, last week was made receiver. His bond was set at $3,500,000, a Federal record. He is an experienced oilman who began work in a pipe gang in Coalinga field. In 1910 he went with North American Oil Consolidated...
Retired. Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, 70, British Consul General, dean of foreign consuls in Manhattan, whose term in office has been twice extended beyond the age limit (60) because of "special conditions." New Consul General is Gerald Campbell, transferred from San Francisco...
George Benjamin Luks of Manhattan, originally of Williamsport, Pa., was twice in the news last week. In Baltimore, as judge of a Pan-American exhibition of paintings opened with unction by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson as "an outstanding event in the history of Pan-American cultural relations," he helped to award the $1,000 first prize to Alfredo Guttero of Argentina for a formalized, thick-necked Madonna somewhat reminiscent of the woodcuts of Britain's Eric Gill. The award moved Baltimore Catholics to indignant frenzy. Thundered the Catholic Review...