Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor...
...Detroit, Hotel Manager William 0. Seelbach, thinking (with a wink) to insure the city against rain during an outdoor industrial exhibition, invited 67-year-old Rain Maker Lillie Stoat of Oxford, Miss. (TIME, April 10) to come to Detroit while the show was on, without her umbrella. Rain Maker Stoat refused to come. It rained and snowed...
...Will The West Survive?", will be the subject of a free public lecture by William Allen White, noted editor, this evening in the New Lecture Hall...
...petition was circulated by the H. S. U. Yard Questions committee, under the chairmanship of William B. Schaliek...
Carrying on in the William Powell-Myrna Loy tradition, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell succeed with little effort in becoming entangled in a theft and murder mystery. A mad whirl that includes to murders and two trips to the underworld is started by the theft of a priceless Shakespearean manuscript. As the plot swirls and eddies, our hero Joel Sloane, a dealer in rare books, emerges unscathed from an arrest by the police, an attempted seduction, and a gruesome automobile accident. But all ends happily when Joel is shot in the seat by his wife, though the title "Fast...