Word: val
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Boettiger in Roosevelt pastimes. In a bright red sleigh with Daughter Anna by his side and Son-in-law John in a single seat behind, President Roosevelt drove for several miles over the snow-packed roads of the Roosevelt estate, to tea at the cottage near the Val-Kill furniture factory...
...public address system installed in the Eliot House dining room will serve to amplify the music of Val Jean's orchestra, which has been secured for the House dance on Saturday evening, after the Princeton game...
Died. Valerian ("Val") O'Farrell, 58, private detective; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. He worked on such famed Manhattan cases as the shooting of Architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw, was counsel for Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who was electrocuted for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. His last job: investigator for Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt who is suing in a Manhattan Supreme Court for return of her daughter, Gloria...
Canada and Peru saw two Secretaries of State before they rose to office-Cardinals Merry del Val and Gasparri. In 1823 there arrived in Chile a priest named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. who was to become Pope Pius IX ("Pio Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...
...usual, suspects were loudly picked up and quietly released in other cities?Baltimore, Philadelphia, Scranton. As usual, Val O'Farrell, oldtime detective, masterminded the case for the Daily News (his angle: "inside job"). U. S. Trucking Corp. was quick to certify the good characters of its robbed guards, promptly sent checks to all who had suffered loss, was happy that it was fully covered by theft insurance. Turning an unprecedented lemon into lemonade, theft insurance firms bought space on financial news pages to advertise their protection service...