Word: aubrey
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Engaged. Elisabeth Morrow, 29, eldest daughter of the late U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, member of the Welsh banking firm of David Morgan, Ltd., founded by his grandfather. Miss Morrow, who was once reported engaged to her brother-in-law Charles Augustus Lindbergh and last year to Rev. Clyde H. Roddy of North Arlington, N. J., met Banker Morgan in 1930 when she accompanied her father to the London Naval Conference...
...Died. Aubrey Lyles, 48, Negro comedian (Miller & Lyles); of pulmonary tuberculosis; in Manhattan. The team appeared in Shuffle Along, George White's Scandals. A song that brought Lyles fame: "I'm Just Wild About Harry...
Died. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, 65, physicist and inventor; of heart disease; in Hamilton, Bermuda. He pioneered the development of radio telephony, was credited with inventing the radio-compass, electrically-driven battleships, numerous submarine safety devices...
Cram has said of him: "I can honestly say that as an abstract type of genius Wright Goodhue was the most brilliant man I have ever known. His ability in the line of stained glass was remarkable. I think Goodhue ranked next to Aubrey Beardsley in keenness and distinction. Being a great genius he was naturally erratic in certain directions with a profound conviction that he must work along the lines that in his opinion were right. He seemed to me to be a reincarnation in modern times of some spirit out of the Middle Ages. His difficulty was that...
...Last week President Hoover again shuffled his secretariat. He made George Aubrey Hastings, his researcher, the executive director of the White House Conference on Child Health & Welfare. French Strother, magazine writer, was taken back into his old job as literary secretary...