Word: copper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. By Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 28, daughter of Heiress (copper) Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, stepdaughter of Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.: Alexander Hohenlohe, 31, prince and war refugee, who fled Poland with the Biddles in 1939, attempted suicide last September after his separation from Peggy; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
...dedicated buildings, inaugurated cattle shows, addressed miners' rallies. Wherever he went he told his audiences that the atmosphere in Santiago was enough to choke him, that he had fled to the provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...
Imported Virus. Sitting at the back of the room as Henderson spoke were platinum-haired Clem Whitaker and his copper-haired business partner-wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public. Whitaker & Baxter reported on what they had done since "the virus of socialized medicine had spread from decadent Europe and taken deep root here...
...brothers who, with their father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...
What Is Life? Selman Abraham Waksman, famed U.S. expert at stirring up civil war among the bugs, was born in 1888 in the little Ukrainian village of Priluka, go miles from Kiev. His father Jacob spent most of his time making copper kitchenware in the nearby town of Vinnitsa, and young Selman was brought up almost entirely by his mother Fradia...