Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concordat would safeguard their religious rights. As a peace offering to the Nazis, they dissolved their Catholic Centre Party, the Party which fought Prince Bismarck so stoutly three generations ago. the Party which gave to the German Republic one of its greatest Chancellors, pale, ascetic, tremendously hard-working Bachelor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, April 7, 1930 et seq.). Seventy-three Catholic Centre Deputies of the German Reichstag and 68 in the Prussian Diet were refused permission to join the Nazis last week and became ''men without a party." Most of them were expected to resign their seats...
...Porter was born in Stamford, Connecticut, February 6, 1883, and was graduated from Yale in 1904. He received his bachelor of fine arts degree in 1917 in New Haven. After work in architecture at Columbia he travelled extensively in France and Italy. In 1915 he started lecturing on fine arts at Yale and was appointed full professor in 1920. He has been William Dorr Boardman Professor here since...
After breakfasting sumptuously at the home (just outside Toronto) of John Paris Bickell, "richest bachelor in Canada," the party set out in two General Airways' planes flying due north over Ontario's lake country to Porcupine gold camp. Their first goal was famed Mclntyre-Porcupine mine, Mr. Bickell's prize performer (which produced $5,425,000 of gold last year). There they met Sandy Mclntyre, onetime glass-molder, later foreman of a railroad construction gang, who discovered the mine and now lives on a pension (doled out in small amounts so that he will not disappear...
Married. Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush, 56, Wall Street trader, president of American International Corp. (investment trust), reputed to be richest U. S. bachelor of his age; and one Elizabeth Hunger, 33, his private secretary; in Larchmont, N. Y. Because of his knowledge of market operations, he was called to testify at the U. S. Senate's investigation of short selling last spring. Director of 47 companies, he cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns...
...revival of Southern letters. But in his 43 years he has come a long way from home. As a plebe at the U. S. Naval Academy he overstrained himself in athletics, was granted an honorable discharge; later (1915) he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with honors as a Bachelor of Science in economics. After a job with the Bell Telephone Co. he enlisted in the National Guard, saw active service along the Mexican border and went to France as first lieutenant of infantry with the A. E. F. Badly wounded and invalided home, Allen settled after...