Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Bachelors. Last week the prospect was that the House would pass the Tariff Bill before June 1 and then recess until about August 1; that the Senate would recess until July 1, while its Finance Committee overhauls the House's measure. The certainty of a tiresome summer session prompted five Republican senators to rent the Walter Tuckerman country home near Bethesda, Md., there to establish bachelor-hall after despatching their families to cooler climates. The Senators were...
...graduation (1913). One of his employes in the pressing business, a bright Italo-Amcrican boy of eight or nine, so delighted Undergraduate Hamilton (then about 18) that he legally adopted him, later sent him through Andover and Yale. This adopted son now has a son of his own, making Bachelor Hamilton a legal grandfather...
Married. Henry Latham Doherty, 58. of Manhattan, self-made public utilities and oil tycoon (Cities Service Co., Henry L. Doherty & Co.), "richest U. S. bachelor"; and Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, 40, relict of an International Harvester Co. foreign official; secretly, on Dec. 31 last; in Toronto. Mrs. Eames had nursed Tycoon Doherty through a nearly fatal arthritis illness. An Eames daughter, 18, is being schooled in Spain. Last week, in Atlantic City, N. J., the Dohertys planned a return to Manhattan. In the luxurious Doherty penthouse apartment, the Doherty bed, at punch of button, moves on rails...
Some weeks back bachelor Tsar Boris left Sofia in cheerful mood. Traveling incognito as Count Stanislaw Rilski of Warsaw, he joked with railway officials, and hoped that this would be his last journey alone. It was understood in Sofia that Tsar Boris's official matchmaker, gallant General Ivan Wolkoff, was in Rome arranging for the marriage of Tsar Boris with the King of Italy's daughter Giovanna. Pictures of Princess Giovanna appeared in Sofia shopwindows. Newspapers said that a compromise had been reached with the Vatican whereby the first male child of Princess Giovanna and Tsar Boris might...
...Juan-les-Pins watched the Morgan yacht, too, for Mor gan yachts are newsworthy and news may be made into publicity for budding resorts. And though yachts seldom-have any religious significance, churchmen throughout the world wondered about the Morgan yacht. For on it was Cosmo Gordon Lang, bachelor Archbishop of Canter bury, and where the Archbishop went was important...