Word: beached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palm Beach season reached its height, Liberty Leaguer Alfred Emanuel Smith became a feted guest comparable to John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, tenth Duke of Maryborough. Smith hosts included U. S. Steelman Myron Charles Taylor, Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Sportsman Joseph Early Widener. At a fair held by Palm Beach's swank Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, a Presidential straw vote showed: Smith 705, Landon 390, Roosevelt...
Died. Leonard Kip Rhinelander, 33, socialite whose sensational marriage in 1924 to Alice Beatrice Jones, daughter of a Negro taxidriver, ended in years of litigation and finally divorce; of lobar pneumonia; in Long Beach...
Wideman. For "impelling business reasons," Francis James Wideman of West Palm Beach sent the President his resignation as Assistant Attorney General. With the resignation went a memorandum from Attorney General Cummings pointing out that Mr. Wideman had won ten of the eleven cases he argued last year before the Supreme Court. Although the case which he lost was the AAA decision, there came back a note: "This record of Wideman is grand! Congratulate...
Married. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri, Songstress Mary McCormic; and his ex-sister-in-law, "Princess" Louise Astor Van Men Mdivani, wealthy Manhattan socialite, onetime wife of the late "Prince" Alexis Mdivani; in Palm Beach...
Sued. Florence E. Dolan Willys, 38, second wife of the late John North Willys, automobile manufacturer, who inherited a share (estimated at $3,500,000) of his estate; by Mrs. Virginia de Landa, his daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In her petition, Mrs. de Landa charged Mrs. Willys with divorcing her first husband on fraudulent grounds, asked that her marriage to Willys be declared null & void, that she be enjoined from claiming any part of Willys' estate...