Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father of Seattle's late Thane Summers is Lane Summers, well-to-do, publicity-shunning maritime lawyer, whose prime clients include such companies as the Grace and Matson steamship lines, Union Pacific R.R. Co. Instead of pleasing him, the posters stirred him to anger. He publicly announced...
...Married. Grace Vanderbilt Davis, only daughter of Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt, divorced wife of Henry Gassaway Davis III; * to Robert Livingston Stevens, whose grandfather founded Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.; in Ridgewood...
...later married Grace Vanderbilt's cousin Consuclo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Mr. Davis is the only known man who has married two Vanderbilts...
While Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government last week had its hands full defending Britain's domestic air defenses, from another quarter it was questioned on the security of nothing less than "The Rock'' itself. Was the Prime Minister aware, asked Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl, Conservative M. P., that Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco, with Italian and German aid, has so fortified the Spanish seacoast overlooking Gibraltar as to make this keystone of empire practically worthless...
...morning late in May the Tira was gone from her mooring, and gone from their Santa Cruz homes were Lyle Tara and two of his Irish messmates, 17-year-old James Henninger and 16-year-old William Grace. For weeks there was no word of boys or yacht. Merchant Foote broadcast descriptions of the Tira up & down the coast. Then, 28 days later, the Tira heeled swiftly down Banderas Bay into Puerto Vallarta, 2,000 miles from Santa Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico. News travels slowly from Puerto Vallarta, an isolated fishing village hemmed in by coast ranges...