Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gregory by Pope Pius XI. He was confidential adviser to Governor Schmedeman when the Governor was Madison's mayor, followed him into the capitol last year without salary, is now chairman of the State Executive Council, a mixed advisory body of legislators and citizens. A 200-lb. bachelor with curly white hair and a reputation for high power at the council table, he lives in one of Madison's show places with four sisters, one of whom is his secretary...
Since Edward of Wales remains resolutely a bachelor, Betty, the elder daughter of George V's second son, the Duke of York, is in direct line to mount the throne as Queen Elizabeth. She was welcomed to the circus last week by a jovial fellow who could easily cut the figure of a wide-mouthed clown, were he not the Empire's principal sporting peer, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Knight of the Garter and Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland...
...other secret of his success was caution: he made his piles not by financial forays but by carrying a flag of truce. A year after his death (1918) the National City Bank had ballooned to billion-dollar size. Stillman's only intimate was Lawyer John W. Sterling, crotchety bachelor who carried punctuality to the split second, fussiness to the point of boycotting his club for exactly one week when anything gave him the slightest offense there. Stillman's own peculiarities were unlovable. He sometimes shaved three times a day, rarely spoke at his excessively formal dinner table, kept...
...last summer Charles Hayden, potent private banker of Manhattan and director of 82 corporations, found himself in Chicago with time on his hands. Casting about for amusement, this ubiquitous socialite bachelor strolled into the Adler Planetarium...
...Year's present for Mother Nature was packaged last week by Bachelor Adolf Hitler who has said that Nature is unable to cope with modern...