Word: fitzgeraldized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ushers are James B. Ames 2L. Thomas M. Cooley, 1L. John H. Dean 1L. James M. Estabrook 1L, William H. Fitzgerald 1L, Laurenee R. Goodyear 1L. Arthur S. Lane, Jr. 2L, David Riesman, Jr., and William C. Warren...
Because her predecessors were ladies of considerable theatrical importance, May Etheridge was widely hailed as "the first chorus girl duchess." This was a quibble. She had been a chorus girl since the age of 13, but when she met Lord Edward Fitzgerald she had just become leading lady of Princess Caprice at the Shaftesbury, and he was not yet the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland...
...down again. "My God!" cried Dr. Norris. "It's Mrs. Peabody. I knew her well." Few minutes later Mrs. Peabody's brother, famed Poloist Tommy Hitchcock Jr., claimed her body and that of her husband, Manhattan Architect Julian L. Peabody. Other notable victims: Professor Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland of Williams College, in charge of a student paleontological expedition to Yucatan; three Williams seniors, including Manhattan Socialite William Dwight Symmes; Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost, longtime rector of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Staten Island. Notable survivors included two daughters of Charles Stinson Pillsbury, Minneapolis flour tycoon...
Michigan's Frank D, Fitzgerald has the distinction of being one of seven Republicans to take command of a State in 1934. He began his career as a page in the Michigan Legislature. Later he became a 32 degree Mason, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow, a Maccabee. an Eagle, and finally Secretary of State. One vice he has: coffee, which he drinks all day long from a vacuum bottle. Last week his vacuum bottle had to be refilled many times a day as he sat in his home at Grand Ledge, twelve miles from Lansing...
Governor-elect Fitzgerald had already been unfortunate. On Nov. 6 the voters honored him with a Republican State Senate, a State House equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Then the fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a Democratic House (TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending...