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They asked little of life but independence, and that had a price. Through the '20s and '30s Newfoundlanders knew hard times. Their underdeveloped, underpopulated (300,000) island has never been self-sufficient. They imported much of what they ate. When world markets dried, and the full impact of depression was felt, Newfoundland went steadily downhill, hurried along by shortsighted leaders who ran her national debt from $43 million to $100 million in twelve years. In 1933 the treasury had $8 million in revenue to meet an expenditure of $11 million ($5 million in interest charges alone). Then there...
...than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...strictly G.I.: 10,000 uniformed Americans jammed Shanghai's Canidrome (dog track). Navy won, 12-to-0. That made the day perfect for Navy's coach, craggy-faced, beaming Lieut. Commander Andrew James ("Swede") Oberlander, Dartmouth All-America, a football immortal of the golden '20s...
Jascha Heifetz, 44, famously married to his violin since the age of three, and for 17 years to Florence Vidor, cinema star of the '20s, hoped aloud for a reconciliation after she announced to the press that they had separated...
...Lindsay, 56, has been close to the footlights since he gave public recitations as a child, of such ditties as When You See a Man in Woe, Walk Right Up and Say Hello. Carrying a spear, working in tent shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described as a "butterfly with teeth...