Monday, Sep. 23, 1929
Born. To Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, English socialite, the Nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle; a son; in London. Said the London Daily News: "She has caught the popular imagination by ranking first a happy marriage with its normal completion in the cradle."
Married. Janet Gaynor, 22, cinemactress (Seventh Heaven, Sunrise); and Lydell Peck, 30 San Francisco attorney;
at Oakland, Cal.
Married. Miss Helena Lodge, of Washington, D. C., granddaughter of the late Senator from Massachusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge; and Edouard de Streel, first secretary of the Belgian Embassy; in Washington.
Died. John R. Cudahy, 46, of Chicago, meat packing scion; in Dwight, Ill.; of heart disease.
Died. Rev. Ole John Kvale, 60, of Benson, Minn., U. S. Representative from Minnesota (successor to Andrew J. Volstead) ; when his cottage at Otter Tail Lake, Minn., burned.
Died. Mrs. Minnie Palmer Marx, 65, of Manhattan, mother of the five Marx brothers (Zeppo, Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo); in Manhattan.
Birthday. Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at his summer home in Murray Bay, Quebec. Age: 72. Died. Louis Marshall, 72, of Manhattan, Constitutional lawyer (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall), philanthropist, "acknowledged leader of American Jewry,"* chairman of the Jewish Council Agency; in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had gone to attend the Zionist Congress; of an infection of the pancreas. His accomplishments: Leader, in 1911, of the movement to abrogate the U. S. Treaty of 1832 with Russia after that country would not honor U. S. passports when carried by Jews, Roman Catholics or Protestant missionaries; leader of the Jewish war relief movement which raised $5,000,000; U. S. Jewish representative at Geneva in 1919; president since 1912 of the American Jewish Committee. Modest, retiring, Mr. Marshall never disclosed the amounts of his benefactions. Died. George Charles Jenks, 79, of Owasco Lake, N. Y., author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days.
* Title given to him three years ago by The Jewish Tribune (TIME: Dec. 20, 1926).