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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Richard Kidston Law. reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, son of the late British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law; to Mary Virginia Nellis of Rochester, N. V...
This was flayed at Buckingham Palace, last week, as an "almost flippant" and "entirely unauthorized" exaggeration of the gravity of George V's condition on that date...
Married. Diana Gumming, daughter of Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the Public Health Service; and Manville Kendrick, son of Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming; in Washington. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was among the guests. v...
...City, Tex Rickard was a Texas cowpuncher at 10, a town marshal at 23. Then he went goldward to Alaska, ran dance-halls, saloons, gaming-tables, dug ore with Novelist Rex Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay, Gimbel). Always...
Hornblower & Weeks: F. Dewey Everett and Edward V. Jaeger, market advice editor, of New York; W. David Owen, James J. Phelan Jr., Henry B. Dearbon of Chicago; bringing the firm's memberships...