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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsie Parrish. Off & on from 1933 to 1935, the Cascadian Hotel of Wenatchee, Wash, employed Mrs. Elsie Parrish as chambermaid for $12 a week. Under Washington's Minimum Wage Law for women she should have got $14.50 for her 48-hour week. She demanded what the law said was coming to her. The hotel offered $17 in settlement. Elsie Parrish spurned it. She sued...
Marriage Revealed. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 31, U. S. N., divorced husband of Thalia Fortescue Massie of Hawaii's celebrated rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.); and Florence K. Storms, 29, Seattle stenographer, daughter of Chewelah, Wash.'s postmaster; fortnight ago; in Seattle...
Married. Helene Emma Madison, 24, famed free-style swimmer, 1932 Olympic champion in the 100-and 400-metre races; and Luther C. Mclvor, builder of Wenatchee, Wash.'s Rock Island Dam; at Wenatchee. Breaker of many records before she turned professional in 1932, Swimmer Madison made a film in Hollywood (The Warrior's Husband), went home to Seattle disillusioned, sold hot dogs to pay her way through nursing school...
...TUBBS, new football coach at the University of Iowa, is a short, bald 49-year old native of Kentucky, who may shortly be known among Hawkeye followers as Wash Tubbs, after the stubby comic strip character of that name. Eighteen years a coach, he can best be identified nationally as the inventor of the quick-kick, as one of the first to conduct summer schools for coaches, and as the holder of lucrative patent rights to valveless, seamless footballs and basketballs and elastic ribbed football pants. All-Americans Ernie Nevers of Stanford and Pat Boland of Minnesota first took grid...
Steele v. Risko, Middleweights (145 to 160 lb.) have produced no outstanding champion since Mickey Walker retired in 1931. Last summer, after holding the championship of the class for less than a year, Middleweight Babe Risko of Syracuse, N. Y. lost it to Middleweight Freddie Steele of Tacoma, Wash. Unconvinced that Steele was the better man, Risko challenged his conqueror to a return match. This time, to get the champion into the ring, he had to guarantee Steele a $25,000 purse which he hoped to get out of the receipts...