Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is not for us," Frederick Weyerhaeuser told his partners when he bought his first acreage west of the Rockies, "nor for our children, but for our grandchildren." Frederick had by that time begotten John Philip and three younger sons, three daughters. He had settled in a great house in St. Paul, whose richest citizen he was. But with shyness and dislike of ostentation characteristic of Weyerhaeusers to this day, Frederick's house was not quite so big as James J. ("Empire Builder") Hill's next door...
...Frederick Weyerhaeuser died without ever having lost his German accent. Eldest Son John Philip, already a well-aged man, had moved to Tacoma to take over the western part of the Weyerhaeuser empire, leaving younger brothers Rudolph and Frederick in control at St. Paul. Two of John Philip's sons went to Yale. Of the third generation, these are so far the most outstanding Weyerhaeusers. When Son Frederick got out of college (1917) he nailed a rubber hook to his office door, amused himself at his father's repeated attempts to hang his coat...
...Astrid, is now Queen of the Belgians, and last week his pretty 25-year-old granddaughter, Princess Ingrid, made him feel every inch a King by marrying with much pomp & ceremony the 6-ft. 5-in. heir to the throne of Denmark, hulking, kindly 36-year-old Crown Prince Frederick...
Three Kings were there: Oscar Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Charles Frederick Albert Alexander William Christian of Denmark, and Leopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel of the Belgians. For the first time since the heavy-booted German army marched through his father's capital in 1914, King Leopold was brought face to face with the onetime Crown Prince of Germany. It was carefully arranged that their suites should be at opposite ends of the Stockholm palace, and court attendants were in a dither with excitement. But when they met in the Town Hall, nothing happened...
Wedding presents included a 17th Century brooch of diamonds and pearls once owned by the father of Frederick the Great, from King Gustaf; a modern diamond brooch from Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, father of the bride; a sapphire pendant from George V; and five kroner in cash ($1.25) from an unknown Swedish girl. Because blue is Sweden's royal color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before...