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Today tall, iron-grey haired and handsome, George Ranney (along with many a socialite McCormick, Wendell. Morton. Palmer) has an apartment at No. 1260 Astor Street and plays middling and sometimes mildly profane golf with his friend Melvin Traylor of Chicago's First National, of which he is a director and member of the executive committee. But unlike many a Chicago tycoon who got drenched in the downpour of Depression odium, George Ranney has come through with his reputation unaspersed. Last week Mr. Ranney discreetly held his peace while Continental directors waited until the RFC's approval should...
Engaged, John Jacob Astor, 21, great-great-grandson of the first John Jacob Astor, younger son of the fourth John Jacob Astor (Titanic victim) and of Madeleine Talmadge Force Astor Dick Fiermonte; and Eileen S. S. Gillespie. Manhattan debutante. Heir to $3,000,000 last August when he reached his majority, young John Jacob three weeks ago became the stepson of his onetime boxing instructor (TIME...
Married. Mrs. Madeline Force Dick, 40, widow of John Jacob Astor, divorced wife of William K. Dick; to Italian Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte, 26, onetime boxing instructor to her sons; in a Manhattan hospital, where she is recuperating from a broken...
...Publisher Vincent Astor published fiction in Today, his houseorgan of the Roosevelt Administration, he could do worse than print at least the final part of Authoress Barnes's latest novel. It purports to be a study of the social changes which the War brought the U. S., and its peroration should certainly give aid & comfort to the New Dealers. "As I listened to that address [Roosevelt Inaugural] I was wishing I could live forever. Something new is beginning." Actually Within This Present is a pleasant, long-drawn-out story of a well-to-do and unremarkable Chicago family. Written...
...That measure was passed by war profiteers!" stormed Lady Astor, opposing the Government despite the fact that she is a Conservative. Continued the Noble Lady: "We [Conservatives] are supposed to back the Government but we sometimes feel more like kicking you than backing...