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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After pausing for two weeks at the door of a bedroom in Chicago's Drake Hotel, last week Death came, as it must to all women, to Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Once she was called the world's richest woman. But cancer makes no distinctions. Two years ago she had a growth removed from her breast. It reappeared in her liver. When she moved to the Drake from her mansion on Lake Shore Drive in June (TIME, Aug. 1), she and her doctors knew the end was near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: End of a Princess | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...from the Shipping Board under the Jones-White Act. The Manhattan was the first transatlantic passenger vessel built under the new program, the first built in the U. S. since 1897. A day less than one year after the keel was laid the vessel was launched, christened Manhattan by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Big Maiden | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Birthdays. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn (75), Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt (71), Jacob Ruppert (65), Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder (62), Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard (61), Haakon VII of Norway (60), Herbert Clark Hoover (58), Ethel Barrymore (53), the Duchess of York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...father, John Davison Rockefeller, was installed in a four-room suite at Chicago's Drake Hotel last week. The rooms, overlooking Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan's wave-rimmed shore, were so expensive that many persons would be glad to call them "home." But to Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick the move was a heartbreaking acquiescence to the condition she always speaks of as "the change." Once worth 40, 50, perhaps 60 million dollars, last week in her 60th year she found her tremendous fortune largely vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dowager at the Drake | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...Manhattan one Florence Bramson, owner of five International Match $1,000 debenture bonds (worth $17.50 each last week), brought suit against Guaranty Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co., charging not fraud but misrepresentation of facts. Another suit against Lee, Higginson & Co. was filed last week by Alice F. and Edith S. Tilton of Milton, Mass., owners of Kreuger & Toll securities. They too charged misrepresentation, sought their money back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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