Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When she was 26, Sara Delano married James Roosevelt. He was 50, a widower with one son, James Jr., who after a minor diplomatic career died in 1927. James Roosevelt took his bride across the Hudson to the Hyde Park house where Franklin was born 51 years ago. He and his mother nearly died as the result of an overdose of chloroform. In his nursery he first met and played with his cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt who later became his wife. With his well-to-do parents, he made frequent trips abroad, generally to Nauheim where his elderly father took...
...seat in the Cabinet. Long a widower, he flew to Cuba where he was the guest of Ambassador Guggenheim. At her suburban villa before 30 witnesses he was married to Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, fiftyish, socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow of President Clemente Vasquez Bello of the Cuban Senate (assassinated last autumn). After the ceremony the Walshes flew...
Married. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann, relict of New York Morning Telegraph Publisher Edward Russell Thomas; and William Magraw, president of Manhattan's Underground Installations Co.; in Manhattan. Later kidnappers demanded $150,000 not to kidnap the bride's daughter Lucetta Cotton Thomas, 7, $2,000,000 heiress...
Married. Princess Luba Obolensky; and Prince Serge Gregory Troubetzkoy; scions of Russia's greatest pre-Revolution houses who have intermarried for five generations; in a Russian Orthodox Church in upper Manhattan. In 1931 the groom married the bride's sister. Princess Anna Obolensky, who two months later jumped off the Eiffel Tower...
Married. Doris Mercer Kresge, divorced wife of 5-&-10? Store Man Sebastian S. Kresge who claimed she wanted $10,000,000 to bear a child; and Prince Farid Khan Sadri, onetime chamberlain to Persia's late Ahmed Shah Kadjar; in civil and Mohammedan ceremonies, the bride remaining Christian; in Paris...