Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...society colyumist of the Tribune; and Artist Frederick Clay Bartlett and his socialite sister; Bishop & Mrs. Charles Palmerston Anderson (he is the new presiding officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Mr. & Mrs. Louis Eckstein (he backs the Ravinia Opera); Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank (she, a potent socialite Democrat); Mrs. Bertha Baur (socialite Republican); Mr. and Mrs. Arch Wilkinson Shaw (President Hoover consults him on business...
...South Carolina in 1925, "Bertha Lowman . . . squirmed in her pain over the cleared space of the tourist camp. . . . The shifting target and the half-light cost the mob many bullets...
...Cincinnati, one Mrs. Bertha Simpson, in order not to wake her husband one stormy night last week, waited for a thunder clap to drown the noise of the revolver with which she shot herself...
Entered a policeman escorting Miss Bertha St. Clair Mason, 48, charged by Mr. Snowden with attempting to blackmail him. "I will break you politically and socially," threatened one of Spinster Mason's letters, "because you betrayed me 20 years ago." Under cross-examination she admitted writing the letters, but said they were meant for another Mr. Snowden. "It's just one of those cases of mistaken identity. I'm awfully sorry...
...York Stock Exchange, last week, U. S. Rubber climbed steadily from 44½ to 52½. The du Fonts were mentioned. It was no secret that Irenee, Constance, Mary B., A. Felix & Bertha du Pont had become, within the last year, large stockholders of U. S. Rubber. Equally well known was the fact that du Pont-Legate Henry Davis had recently been chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts...