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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Prince Ahmed Seif ed Din, 60, brother-in-law to the late King Fuad of Egypt; in Istanbul. One night in 1898, Ahmed encountered King Fuad in Cairo's hotspot Native Club, accused him of hav-ing mistreated Fuad's first wife (Ahmed's sister), shot him in the throat, so that the King ever after half-coughed, half-cackled. Ahmed cracked rocks for three penitential years, was then deported to an English asylum, escaped after 25 years, has since lived quietly on the Bosphorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Highway District claimed the right-of-way to link it into the Carmel-San Simeon Highway. Civic clubs, chambers of commerce and the like have joined forces with the State to wrest the road from Ocean Shore R.R. Last week the battle still raged in court. Meanwhile, Downey Harvey, hav-ing lost $5,000,000 and been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud in 1913 for transferring $100,000 in stock to his wife before bankruptcy, Downey Harvey was cleared by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1916, has lived ever since on San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: New Road Old | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Because Hollywood producers will not pay her enough, Lupe is on her way to England to make two pictures and to act in one stage production. "I would already be thaire, but the studies burned down, and now I hav to wait, but I am glad, for then I come to Bostown, and I like it so much here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupe Velez Loves Harvard Boys, but Has Never Sat in John Harvard's Lap | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...Myself, I have nevaire beene to college, but I hav beene kicked out of many schools," continued the dark haired idol of hot-cha movie fans, who was educated in convents both in this country and in her native Mexico. "College dramatics are the ideel place for a boy to develop for the screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lupe Velez Loves Harvard Boys, but Has Never Sat in John Harvard's Lap | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

...they also expose their motivations, wills, characters. Anyone could decide, on the evidence of Rembrandt's pictures of this period, whether he would have lent his sitters money, married them or bet on their futures. They are for the most part resolute, weathered, resigned faces, expert at concealment, hav-ing the drama and depth of authentic human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Amsterdam's Rembrandt | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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