Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Clarence Hungerford Mackay, 64. board chairman of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., husband of onetime Opera Singer Anna Case, father of Mrs. Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...
...Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands last year set a precedent by personally preannouncing the birth of her daughter over the radio (TIME, June 28, 1937). Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger last week pre-announced on her "Homemaker" page in her husband's Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "PRELUDE TO THE MARCH ARRIVAL OF A NEW CITIZEN. . . . My husband, my mother and I ... made plans for the looked-forward-to arrival of my mother's newest grandchild. The biggest question was, could mother arrange to be on the spot to help usher into the world a new citizen for Seattle...
...white house on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week collected gaping curiosity seekers and frightened neighbors. Outside, a posse headed by U. S. Marshal Robert P. Clark had waited ten days to take peaceful possession of the house in the name of the U. S. Government. Inside. Mrs. Anna Laura Lowe Barnett, onetime wife of "World's Richest Indian'' Jackson Barnett, sat waiting too. Marshal Clark said he would enter the house without violence. Mrs. Barnett said she would keep him out with knives & guns. And if they failed, threatened Mrs. Barnett, she had enough dynamite...
...time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...
...alone in comparing Alien Bogomoletz favorably with Alien Bridges. By last week, when the record of the Bogomoletz case was forwarded to Madam Secretary Perkins with the recommendation that he be deported to Latvia, it had become almost as famed as the Bridges case. Meantime, Nicholas Bogomoletz and Anna Zaporojschuk, who have a 15-year-old daughter, had finally married...