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Happier would be the life of any President if custom did not require him to act as No. 1 Greeter of the nation. Last week President Hoover received, among many another: 1) Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor...
After a 23-day barrage of political evidence a jury at Sheboygan. Wis. last week refused to believe that their Governor, Walter Jodok Kohler. plumbing tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler"). had violated the Corrupt Practice Act in winning his high office in 1928 (TIME. May 5). The Act limits campaign expenditures to $4,000. The state's prosecutors failed to prove their charge that Governor Kohler had spent $100,000 politically through his plumbing plant and the campaign activities of his employes...
Hungary. "Money, money! Give me money, Papa Zukor!" screamed a coarse-faced peasant woman in the village of Ricse last week, thrusting up a hand that half begged, half threatened at Cinema Tycoon Adolph Zukor, who with Mrs. Zukor was revisiting his Hungarian birthplace...
Birthday. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, tea tycoon, yachtsman. Age: 80. Date: May 10. Celebration: grooming his Shamrock V for the America's Cup races off Newport, R. I., Sept...
Born. To Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, Daughter Joan of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney, sister of Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; a daughter...