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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final, U. S. No. 1 Alice Marble, after drubbing Poland's Ja-Ja Jedrzejowska and Denmark's Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, defeated England's Kay Stammers, 6-2, 6-0, with the most brilliant tennis of the whole tournament. While 18,000 excited spectators compared Miss Marble to the late great Suzanne Lenglen, the new champion came back to the centre court to win the women's doubles (with Sarah Palfrey Fabyan) and the mixed doubles (with Bobby Riggs). Riggs & Cooke took the men's doubles to make a clean sweep of all fiveWimbledon titles...
Married. Jefferson Davis Dickson, 43, Natchez, Miss, farm boy who became Europe's No. 1 sports promoter, built, owns and operates the Palais des Sports in Paris; and Louise Wedell Mastbaum, 29, Philadelphia heiress; in Greenwich, Conn. For years Dickson was a devoted swain of Skater Sonja Henie...
...year slight, greying Josephine Roche became heir to the minority interest of her late conservative father, John J. Roche, in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., blood was spilled on another page of the grim history of Colorado's mine wars. To Vassar-educated Miss Roche, who had spent 19 years as a social worker, that was bitter: six diggers had been killed in a strike riot within sight of the gaunt tipple of Rocky Mountain Fuel's Columbine mine...
...while R. M. F. did better than others because of its union policy, the whole Colorado coal industry grew sick. The year that Miss Roche took over, a pipeline which had snaked its way from the natural gas fields of the Texas Panhandle went into operation. Owned jointly by Standard Oil of New Jersey, Sinclair Oil and Colorado Public Service Co., it knocked the spots off the coal business. In 1929, 9,934,000 tons of coal were mined in Colorado. By last year production had fallen...
...years Josephine Roche and other officers lent money to the company to pay interest on its $3,971,000 bonded debt. Some five years ago Miss Roche stepped out of the presidency to become Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, turned over the job of running the company to able J. Paul Peabody. Last year, after his death, she returned to the job, later asked bondholders to take interest cuts in their R. M. F. 5s. They refused...