Word: aldriches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
Last week the following was news: John D. Rockefeller became a member of the New York State Chamber of Commerce in 1889 when he was 50. John D. Rockefeller Jr. was elected a member in 1900 when he was 26. Last week John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 28, and Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 26, were elected members on their grandfather's nomination, which was seconded by their father. It was the first time three generations of a family had ever served simultaneously on the New York Chamber, oldest of its kind in the world...
Thus last week in The Churchman (Episcopal) wrote Rev. Dr. Donald Bradshaw Aldrich of Manhattan's Church of the Ascension. His remarks were by way of foreword to an article "Flowers on the Altar" by Mrs. Eleanor H. Sloan, Connecticut horticulturist who long has been on the Church of the Ascension's Altar Guild. Helpful to harassed ladies on altar guilds up & down the land were Mrs. Sloan's practical pointers. Excerpts...
...N.S.L.'s activity took the form of an attempt to persuade Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, to cut off further purchases of crackers from the Uneeda Biscuit Company until the strikers' demands have been met. Charles L. Whipple '35, executive secretary of the League, led a delegation of four to Durant's office yesterday afternoon but was unable to obtain an interview. An appointment, however, has been secured for 2 o'clock today...
Lowell House will ring out with the tones of the harpsichord, played by Putnam Aldrich, one of Boston's leading harpsichordists, and the voices of its own Choral Society, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. This is the first concert arranged by the Lowell House Musical Society in its third season...