Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, 49, "America's richest bachelor," yachtsman, contract bridge expert; and Gertrude L. Conaway, 32, of Philadelphia ; quietly in Manhattan...
...adjourned (TIME, Aug. 7), but the Lords & Commons went home without facing the issue. Last week for the first time an aristocrat popped up among England's tithe-embattled farmers. Horsy and determined Lady Evelyn Balfour is a niece of the late, great Lord Balfour who died a bachelor and left his title to her father, the present Earl Balfour. Last week pretty Lady Evelyn was among a crowd of more than 100 Essex and Sussex farmers who set upon a bailiff. After rescuing the bailiff, police charged Lady Evelyn and 36 farmers with "unlawful assembly." In Castle Hedingham...
...Jewish]. Further she must be respectable. She must be not disaffected toward the present German State and she must be of a family measuring up to like requirements." This order, Nazis exulted, means that though the Reichswehr may continue to remain for a time aloof from politics, its bachelor members will be obliged to take only Nazi brides...
...record as an investor as spotless as his reputation as a scientist. Nevertheless they were surprised at the size and liquidity of his holdings when he died. He had some French gold, a sheaf of Bank of England notes, accounts in one British and nine U. S. banks. A bachelor, he divided most of his $10,000,000 hoard between the American Philosophical Society and the Geological Society of America. The latter body long pondered what to do with its income, was glad to help the floundering...
...Colonel Jacob Ruppert, prizefight loving bachelor, owner of Manhattan's most victorious ball club, the New York Yankees, did not in the beginning of the Depression have the big, profitable, post-Prohibition brewing business that he has today. Yet he made a bold decision. He announced that he would back his faith in Manhattan real estate by buying any properties that appealed to him. Last week the Colonel bought the 23-story Hoagland Building on Madison Avenue at 40th Street, and Manhattan did not accuse him of being late in fulfilling his promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that...