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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Career: If the U. S. were England, Richard Mifflin Kleberg would never have had to do any political campaigning. He would have grown up to inherit a seat in the House of Lords. For he is the elder son of Robert Justus Kleberg, who married Alice Gertrudis King, whose father, Captain Richard King, began in the 1850s to assemble what became not only the biggest ranch in the U. S. but one of the world's most impressive landholdings. Today, dominated by Klebergs, the King Ranch of 1,250,000 acres is twice as big as Rhode Island, nearly...
...Career: Robert Johns (not "Bob" but "Roy") Bulkley has more hair and more money than most Senators. Scion of a well-heeled pioneer family-Cleveland has a Bulkley Building, a Bulkley Boulevard-he graduated from Harvard in 1902, two years before Franklin Roosevelt, with whom he worked on the undergraduate daily Crimson. From Harvard Law School he returned to Cleveland to practice corporation law, manage his inherited real estate, and indulge a gentleman's interest in low-tariff Democratic politics which got him into Congress in 1911. Once there, he blossomed out as a prot...
When the World War broke out Pianist Paderewski's career took an abrupt turn. A fervent patriot, he foresaw a chance for the independence of his native Poland, dedicated his every effort to this cause. His acquaintance with nearly all the powerful and famous figures of the world made him Poland's best ambassador. At War's end Poland was free, and Paderewski virtually retired from the concert platform to become its first Premier...
Working seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, at 46 he fidgets with surplus energy. His advertising business, though large, leaves him with time on his hands. This time he gives to his career as a broadcaster. In 1933, with Arde Bulova, he bought station WAAM (Newark), consolidated with station WODA (Paterson, N.J.), called the combination station WNEW. As WNEW's president, Broadcaster Biow infused the station with his own nervous vitality, put it on a 24-hour broadcasting day. A tireless dispenser of night-time recorded music, it is a great favorite with Manhattan's taxi...
When Princess Radziwill heard that Daniele Varè was hesitating between a musical and a diplomatic career, she told him: "There is a new character for you to create. The Laughing Diplomat." This was at the Italian embassy in Berlin, in 1900, when Varè was 20. Young Varè took her at her word, laughed genially through his years of service in the Italian consulate in Vienna, as first secretary of the legation in Peking, in the foreign office in Rome, as delegate to the League of Nations, at the San Remo conference, in London, Luxemburg, Copenhagen, Berlin...