Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cardinals might have chosen any Catholic male over 30 for Pope. But of course they would not. The late debonair Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val was seriously discussed as the Able Man. So too were a few others. But the preponderant choice after seven ballots, as everyone now knows, was Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan...
Author & Artist. Rockwell Kent, 48, onetime well-digger, sailor, farmer, teacher, lobsterman, carpenter, architect, boatbuilder, has a passion for the sea, a passion for painting. Not afraid of solitude, he has lived and sailed much alone (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). To finance a trip to Alaska he once incorporated himself for $10,000, paid a 10% dividend. Last summer he painted a 6,400 sq. ft. canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where...
...Report by the Wilmington, Del. Chamber of Commerce that during the first month of a campaign urging people to find and go ahead with construction jobs, such as getting the porch fixed, putting in a new bathroom, paving the driveway, it had succeeded in locating 450 jobs big enough to require building permits...
...miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several coal, iron & steel companies (among them Johnson Co., which became Lorain Steel Co., now a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp.). Later he developed many street railway lines. Having acquired a large fortune, he went to Wilmington, Del. intending to retire at the age of 37. With his cousins Pierre Samuel and Alfred I. du Pont he reorganized E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co. (explosives). In 1915 he resigned as president, sold his holdings for $14,000,000. In Manhattan he built the Equitable Building...
...fateful to Dr. Grenfell's work. It dramatized the stark necessity of the benefit the International Grenfell Association will produce Lt Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Friday, Nov. 21. Chief singers will be Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli. The opera : Giuseppe Verdi's La forza del destine (The Power of Fate...