Word: worker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until a few weeks ago Charles Powell of East Didsbury, Manchester, was a worker in a British cotton mill. In his spare time Charles Powell of East Dids-bury likes to take pictures. This summer he went on vacation with his pretty tousle-haired fiancee to the Isle of Man. He took her picture sitting on a rock against the sunset with a cheap Kodak she had given him for a birthday present. The picture seemed very good. He enlarged it and sent it to the International Kodak Exhibition at Geneva, a contest for which the various European...
Died. Constance, Lady Battersea, 88, grande dame of the British House of Rothschild, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild who stemmed from the original Frankfort family; in Overstrand, Norfolk, England. A philanthropist, temperance worker, Lady Battersea was a friend of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston...
Kentucky. Circuit Judge Ruby Lafoon of Madisonville, old-line politician, whipped his Republican rival, Mayor William B. Harrison of Louisville, for the Governorship. Candidate Lafoon polled a 71,523 majority. At Bowling Green, election furor precipitated a shooting: a G. 0. P. worker named W. K. Dent sent five slugs in the general direction of one-time Lieutenant GovernorHenry H. Denhardt, Democrat. One bullet pierced Mr. Denhardt's lung. Worker Dent said a friend of Denhardt's had taken a shot at him the day before, that he was saved only by a pack of election cards in his pocket...
Married. Eleanor Hard, 26, daughter of Washington Correspondent William Hard (Consolidated Press As-sociation), staff worker on FORTUNE; and Gerard Kirsopp Lake, Manhattan textile man, son of Professor Kirsopp Lake (Ecclesiastical History) of Harvard; in Washington. A wedding guest: Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Bride's attendant: Countess Felicia Gizycka, daughter of Editrix Eleanor Medill Patterson of Hearst's Washington Herald...
...Elliott Lester's murderer reviews his life, thereby cutting 58 seconds from the record established by Maxwell Bodenheim in a novel (Sixty Seconds) in 1929. Nineteen scenes pass through his mind; at the end of them he is dead. The unfortunate killer is one John Allen (Edward Pawley), steel worker atop a skyscraper. He looks down pityingly on the "flies" beneath. Then he descends, marries a taxi-dancer (Blyth Daly), becomes a fly himself. Up high again, he resents things said about his wife by his good friend Bud Clark (Preston Foster) and in an argument Bud falls...