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...even more important effect on styles in the U. S. Before 1914 only the wealthiest of U. S. matrons bought their gowns in Paris. To the women of the great middle class, Worth, Redfern, Poiret, Callot Soeurs were simply glamorous names. After 1918 the couturiers began for the first time to dress the whole Western world. Their designs, altered and adapted to suit cheaper grades of materials, began to flow out over all Europe and the U. S. Paris became the hub of world fashion. It still...
Died. Jackson Barnett, 90, "wealthiest" Oklahoma Indian; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Charles Leavitt Hyde, banker, realtor, cattleman, rates himself largest landowner, wealthiest citizen, heaviest taxpayer in the State. Last week the Midwest drought was still unbroken. In South Dakota the Government considered transplanting thousands of families to State farms, buying hundreds of thousands of doomed cattle...
Marriage Voided. Jackson Barnett, 90, "wealthiest" Oklahoma Indian; and Mrs. Anna Laurie Lowe Barnett, white; by a U. S. District Court; in Los Angeles. The court held Indian Barnett "mentally incompetent," gave his $300,000 estate to the U. S. Department of the Interior for administration, declared Mrs. Barnett might be employed in the Barnett household, should not be considered Barnett's wife (TIME...
...still dusk fortnight ago a small closed car sped along the highway between San Jose, Calif, and San Mateo. Inside were two kidnappers and their victim, Brooke Hart, 22. son of San Jose's wealthiest department store owner. On the San Mateo bridge across a corner of San Francisco Bay, the car stopped. The three men got out. One of them from behind smashed Brooke Hart's skull with a brick. Together they bound his limp body with baling wire, stole his wallet, lifted him over the bridge railing, heaved him into San Francisco...