Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clever Marina was credited in London with having something more immediate in mind last week. Beauteous as herself are her kinswomen, the two sisters of King George II of Greece. The Duchess was apparently resolved that these eligible Princesses, Irene and Catherine, shall meet bachelor King Edward on his holiday. In Athens the newsorgan Patris flatly declared that the engagement of His Majesty to one or the other of Their Royal Highnesses "will soon be announced." The Princesses were en route to the idyllic isle of Corfu where King George II was said to anticipate entertaining King Edward...
Inaugurated. Robert Sidney Maestri, 47, squat, swarthy New Orleans real estate tycoon, a political heir to the late Huey Long; as the city's first bachelor mayor; after certification by Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche. Because no opponent appeared, no election was necessary...
Ralph West Robey is 35 and a bachelor, handsome enough to have kept Topeka's young women in a flutter since his arrival. He advises Nominee Landon on banking and finance. Born in tiny Masontown, W. Va., Ralph Robey learned his economics in Indiana and Columbia Universities, has since expounded his views in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Evening Post, Washington Post and as banking instructor in Columbia's School of Business. An acquaintanceship with Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley put him on the fringe of the Roosevelt brain trust in 1932, but since the Bank...
...daughter, was "an unhappy one," and when her father died soon after Laura's birth, everybody said, "It is for the best." A mustachioed aunt ran a lace factory at St. Quentin, France, while her pusillanimous husband got drunk and cried for money. Laura, however, admired her bachelor uncle and some of his friends, though the uncle presently put the family's Nottingham lace factory into bankruptcy...
While he lived, the nation hardly knew that Louis McHenry Howe had a wife. Quartered like a bachelor in Abraham Lincoln's White House room, Franklin Roosevelt's gnarled and gnomish No. 1 Secretary was a member of the private as well as the official Presidential family, spent more time in Washington than he did at home in Fall River, Mass...