Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local university and was formerly on the staff of the Library of Congress. I was a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service for a number of years and am a member of the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Roudybush's sole distinction, academic or otherwise, is a Bachelor of Foreign Service degree without honors from the Georgetown Foreign Service School and his school is a one man show...
Those two amiable wage Stuart Erwin and Skeets Gallagter, make "Bachelor Bait" very amusing. It is the story of a matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
Determined to go down in history as the Cupid of the Age, Benito Mussolini last week started firing wifeless mayors. Beginning alphabetically with Alessandria Province he appointed married men to replace the bachelor mayors of several towns ending in "o." Next day the last bachelor in Il Duce's Cabinet, elegant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, hastily married at Trieste a widow with two children...
...Holt comes from a politically popular family. His father, Dr. Mathew Samuel Holt, running last year for Mayor of Weston, had his name ruled off the ticket by a technicality, campaigned nonetheless, was elected by voters who wrote in his name on the ballot. Son Rush, an affable young bachelor who does not drink, does not smoke cigarets, made his reputation in the Legislature by flaying public utilities. If he whips Old Dealer Hatfield in November, he will make an ardent New Dealer in the Senate...
Only one statesman is able to take the microphone in France and talk successfully to the entire nation as "My dear fellow citizens and friends." The people call him affectionately Gastounet ("Little Gaston"). They sympathized when he was a lonely bachelor and President of France. They appreciated his delicacy in waiting until his next to last week in office before marrying a lady of wealth with a chateau in southern France. When President Gaston Doumergue retired his popularity remained such as utterly to eclipse his two successors. There was no one else whom sad-eyed, colorless President Albert Lebrun could...