Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Anna A. Heckscher, wife of August Heckscher, famed banker and builder; on the liner Minnewaska, of heart disease. She was renowned for her philanthropic activities. With her husband she gave $4,000,000 for the formation of the Heckscher Foundation to support the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and to build the "Home for Happiness" on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
...France (French)?Milton S. Hershey (chocolate); Anna Case, soprano, onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company; 50 ex-U. S. Volunteer Ambulance Drivers, to revisit the Western Front...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK? Spurious counts, innocent maidens, forging financiers, tell-tale French maids all take the audience into their confidence in whispered asides and descriptive musical renditions in this revival of Anna Cora Mowatt's comedy...
Engaged. Theodore M. Edison, of West Orange, N. J., son of Thomas A. Edison, famed inventor, to Miss Anna Maria Osterhout, of Cambridge, Mass. Her father, a Professor in the Botany Department of Harvard, precipitated wide discussions in 1918 by averring that food could be obtained from sunlight, air, water...
Marriage annulled. The religious marriage of Boniface Marquis de Castellane, to Anna Gould (daughter of the late Jay Gould), in 1895; at the Vatican, by Pope Pius XI. She divorced Boniface in Paris in 1906, in 1908 married (in London) Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, later the fifth Due de Talleyrand...