Word: months
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...titles of the two one-act plays which will be presented next month by the Cercle Francais were announced last night by W. A. C. Miller III '32, secretary of the organization. They will be: "Le Coeur a ses Raisons", by Caillavet and Flcrs; and "Poil de Carotte", by Renard...
Convicted. Alexander Pantages, vaudeville circuit owner; of criminal assault upon one Eunice Pringle, 17, dancer; in Los Angeles. Sentence: one to 50 years' imprisonment in San Quentin Prison, with clemency recommended. Mrs. Pantages was convicted last month on a manslaughter charge...
...malignant tumor. Since 1907 he had given Indiana Prohibitionists many a signal victory. For disparaging statements made in his annual report to trustees of the Indiana League, concerning the Indiana Supreme Court's attitude in dealing with violators of the 18th Amendment, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, was later pardoned by onetime (1925-28) Governor Ed Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed a law forbidding the display of flasks and cocktail shakers by merchants, the reproduction of liquor labels...
Because Germany's great aircraft builder Dr. Claude Dornier frankly told the right U. S. industrial leaders last spring that he needed money to expand his manufacturing plants at Friedrichshafen, General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan last month went over to Friedrichshafen with a staff of engineers. They looked over the Dornier plant, machines and blue prints. They saw the 12-motored Do-X, which last fortnight carried 169 passengers over Lake Constance. Result was that Mr. Sloan bought for General Motors the licenses to manufacture Dornier planes in the U. S. General Motors lawyers immediately busied themselves...
...exigent early stop is Friedrichshafen where he must meet Dr. Dornier before the German leaves for Manhattan where, the middle of next month, he must confer with the directors of Dornier Corp. of America and help them get started manufacturing his monster seaplanes. At the Friedrichshafen meeting the German and the Hollander will discuss, among other practical things, the usefulness of fulfilling the promise which Dr. Dornier made last week-that next March or April he will send his huge Do-X flying across the Atlantic to demonstrate that heavier-than-air machines can be made as practical as dirigibles...