Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third native-born generation of an old Scotch line, but after the Jersey City incident I am soft pedaling my Americanism. H. F. McGINLEY...
...Please keep up your snappy style and don't cut down on the pepper, think you should print more boosts in your Letters column and less comment from subscribers who knew that John Doe was born on Thursday in a corn crib and not Wednesday in a corn field, those hecklers aren't funny anyhow...
Divorced. Sari Maritza (real name: Patricia Detering-Nathan), 28, China-born, Europe-bred cinemactress (Monte Carlo Madness, The Right to Romance); from Sam Katz, 46. co-founder of famed Balaban & Katz theatre chain, vice president of Loew's Inc. Grounds: extreme cruelty (he called her "crazy." "stupid...
Another international banker is James Speyer, who has as broad a German accent as though he had just arrived from Frankfurt-am-Main, where Speyers have been bankers since the 18th Century. Actually he was born in Manhattan. His interest in Manhattan history is institutionalized in the Museum of the City of New York, to which he gave $450,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the same. Persistent at the time was a story that Mr. Rockefeller wanted to give more but Mr. Speyer preferred that no gift be bigger than his. Speyer & Co. rarely has taken part...
...Biographer Ludwig, it is the very key to Roosevelt's unique "destiny," of the greatest "symbolic significance for our age," the reason, in fact, that "the spirit of the biographer found itself akin to that of his subject." As here traced, the decisive fact is that Roosevelt was born of Hudson River landed gentry, thus naturally acquired simplicity of manner, a distaste for arrogance and showoff...