Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Beach season reached its height, Liberty Leaguer Alfred Emanuel Smith became a feted guest comparable to John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, tenth Duke of Maryborough. Smith hosts included U. S. Steelman Myron Charles Taylor, Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Sportsman Joseph Early Widener. At a fair held by Palm Beach's swank Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, a Presidential straw vote showed: Smith 705, Landon 390, Roosevelt...
...cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 1933; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. The fourth Roosevelt to serve in that position (predecessors were Theodore, Theodore Jr. and Franklin D.), he was a consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom he had defeated...
...complained that its 4% dollar increase in 1935 sales was smaller than the 11.5%, increase in retail food prices, concluded, logically, that "a decline in total tonnage is indicated." The "average" Kroger store had sales of about $1,000 a week, profit of about $1,000 a year. President Albert H. Morrill said that 1935 taxes were about 10% of 1935 sales, which would make taxes equal to a little more than five times profits. Kroger made $2.25 a common share and, at $26.50, sold at a conservative eleven times earnings...
...Varsity foils, Captain Philip Lilienthal, William Gerber, Wallace Cox, and Richard Morgan will represent the Crimson; Edwin Davis, Albert Weiner, Richard Ford, and Edward Miller are entered in the epee; while Howard Reynolds, Edwin Skinner, Richard Morgan, and Elmer Harp will compete in the sabre...
...Edgar Albert Guest is one of the most valuable newspaper properties in the U. S. His daily "poem" for the Detroit Free Press is syndicated in some 200 U. S. papers. But the monetary return therefrom is probably less valuable to the Free Press than the cachet of having employed Guest all his adult life, a fact of which the paper's promotion department never loses sight...