Word: connerses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace Isabell Hammond Conners, 31, the slim, comely, brown-eyed, determined widow of the late William James ("Fingy") Conners, Buffalo steamship, newspaper and political tycoon. The Connerses lived so gaily at "The Monastery," their estate at Huntington, Long Island, that since he died (1929) she has refused to return there. (One of the rooms is paved with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic...
The two doctors were amazed, but nonetheless swam with the tide of publicity and patients. They opened auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners...
Mrs. William James Conners, 36, widow of the hard-bitten Buffalo brewer and steamship operator who bought the Buffalo Enquirer "because everybody roasts me and now I want to heat a pan" (TIME, Oct. 14, 1929), last week heeded a talmudic apothegm which patriarchal Nathan Straus once telegraphed her late...
John Jacob Raskob & family, wintering in Palm Beach (they have rented the home of the late Buffalo Publisher William James ["Fingy"] Conners), were burgled of $150 cash, $75,000 worth of jewels.