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...bankruptcy with loans from eastern friends (among them UNRRA Director Herbert H. Lehman). She went on paying the highest mine wages in the state, sent most of her salary ($12,000 at the peak) back into the business. Though most fellow Denverites thought her wealthy, she lived in a two-room walkup-except during 1934-37; when she was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Senator at Home. Now that Senator Vandenberg has become a world figure, the Vandenbergs' social life in Washington has changed radically. They are rarely in their two-room apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel. Even in the reduced social season, invitations have come to them by the tens and twenties, and they have duly made the rounds of the embassies and the teas...
...Vandenberg followed diplomatic custom and bought himself a black Homburg. He flew out in 15 hours in an Army transport with Fellow Delegate Virginia Gildersleeve, Delegation Adviser John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Hamilton Fish Armstrong. His wife went by train. In San Francisco they have a two-room suite at the Fairmont Hotel, from which, over the rooftops of Chinatown, they...
When the Germans invaded Russia- Thorez stopped whistling the Internationale, started whistling La Marseillaise. From Moscow, where he and his family had a two-room apartment, he broadcast to the French Resistance. He urged cooperation with De Gaulle. But General de Gaulle remembered that Thorez was a military deserter, would not permit him to return to liberated France...
...two-year-old Silverblu Platinum Mink Breeders Association, Larry Moore. Still in his 30s, Larry Moore has been breeding mink for 18 years. He used it to pay his way through an engineering course at Iowa State College at Ames. Soon he became more inter sted in mink than in engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal U.S. mink-raising area by study of rainfall and temperature charts, he took his bride to a two-room shack...