Word: electras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Senator Guglielmo and the Marchioness Maria Cristina Marconi: a daughter. Name: Maria Electra Elena Anna. Godmother: Italy's Queen Elena. She is the first child of the Marchioness, there being three other Marconis (a son, two daughters) by the inventor's first wife...
Senator & Mrs. Guglielmo Marconi on his yacht Electra anchored off Civitavecchia, Italy, talked via wireless telephone with President Karl August Bickel of the United Press, President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America, and President M. H. Aylesworth of National Broadcasting Co., all in Manhattan. The conversation was broadcast. After Senator Marconi had expressed confidence in trans-Atlantic telephone television, international broadcasting and had commented on the new radio station abuilding at Vatican city (TIME, April 21), said Dona Maria Cristina Bezzi-Scala Marconi to President Sarnoff: "Have you heard the news...
...Havemeyer Collection. She directed that the Museum should also be given "all such other pictures, paintings, engravings, statuary and other works of art as my son Horace might appoint to it." No less generous than their mother, her son Horace and her daughters Adaline and Electra (now Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey and Mrs. James Watson Webb) appointed and appointed until the H. O. Havemeyer Collection was bloated to 1.907 specific objects. More modest than other museum donors, Mrs. Havemeyer specified that her collection was not to be kept separate and sacrosanct but was to be split...
Last year the club presented "an adaptation by George Weller of the 'Electra' of Sophocles, renamed for brevity's sake "Fireman, Save My Child...