Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover Plan." Suddenly from the Washington office of Assistant Secretary of State Castle came the full text of a message the President had sent to Statesman Stimson in Paris the week before, and news of a grand "Hoover Plan" which Mr. Stimson was supposed to have presented at the conference. Reporters rushed to Stimson...
...impetuous, hit John Barrymore on the jaw. Of late, David, youngest and least bombastic Selznick, has been heard of most. A year ago, he married Irene Mayer, daughter of Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Near the David 0. Selznicks in Hollywood lives Father Lewis J. Selznick. His grand mannerisms are gone. But his sons and his legend are as lively as ever...
...Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria was in Bayreuth as usual last week. So was ex-Crown Princess Cäcilie of Germany, Prince Wilhelm of Wied who was reigning Prince of Albania for a few months in 1914; the Grand Duke of Hesse and a scattering of Russian, Greek and German nobility and ex-nobility. The weather was bad. Toscanini had his old rheumatism again. Many tickets had been cancelled; prices for room & board were reduced. The Festspielhaus restaurant had been "very tastefully decorated." Then enough people bought tickets at the last minute to fill the house, the weather cleared...
Married. Prince Vassili Alexandrovitch Romanov, 24, nephew of the late Tsar Nicholas II, son of Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch of Russia; and Princess Natalie Galitzine, 23 ; at Whitestone, Long Island...
Birthday. Col. Edward Mandell House (73), Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians (55), George Bernard Shaw (75), George Foster Peabody, retired banker, philanthropist (79), John R. Voorhis, Tammany Grand Sachem...