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Married. Onetime Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York City and his good friend, onetime Actress Betty Compton; by the Mayor of Cannes, France. Said the Mayor of Cannes to the groom: "I hope when you are recalled to America to take another official position, probably as Mayor of New York, you will remember Cannes pleasantly...
Well could U. S. scissor-makers afford to adopt some such plan for increasing profits. Biggest U. S. makers include J. Wiss & Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...
Beneath a pornographic picture of Betty Compton (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932) you write "The Maharajah is interested in reform" and in the article on same page you refer to Colonel Sir Shri Krishnaraja Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharajah of Mysore, and further state that the ex-Mayor of New York, Mr. J. J. Walker, was about to return the visit of the Maharajah. In TIME (Dec. 5) is a cut giving a photograph of the "Maharajah" and his friend...
...self-exiled in Cannes, France, is "in very bad shape. His whole system is disorganized . . . kidneys . . . heart . . . blood pressure. . . . When he left this country his pressure was low. Now it is alarmingly high." Brother James called on the marriage clerk in Cannes, France, with his "inseparable friend," Actress Betty Compton, to get "the necessary information...
...Long Beach, 13 schools were completely demolished. Eleven more were so badly damaged that it was doubtful that they would be rebuilt. The board of education appropriated $260,000 for temporary school buildings. The Compton Junior College and High School were destroyed. In the unincorporated sections of the quake sector. 10 other school buildings were total losses...