Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floorwalker Grover Whalen had real executive ability, made him general manager of Wanamaker's Manhattan store. After only three years he was called back to the city's service. While Mayor Walker was dining out and making the wisecracks which endeared him to every Irish heart, things had gone on which put his administration in bad odor. One was the notoriously unsolved murder of the famed Gambler Arnold Rothstein. To rescue the administration from shame, Grover Whalen was made police commissioner. Soon the shortcomings of the police department were forgotten. Commissioner Whalen completely and drastically altered the city...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan...
Died. Guglielmo Marconi, 67, Italian-Irish inventor of wireless communication, Nobel Prizewinner (1909), Italian marquese and senator, president of the Royal Academy of Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome. His current inventions were for short-wave focused radio beams; his last public service, the Pope's earth-circling short-wave broadcasting station...
Died. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 69, socialite and philanthropist; of a heart attack while shopping; in Paris. Mrs. Rice was Eleanor Elkins of Philadelphia, daughter of Oilman William L. Elkins. She married Philadelphia's George Widener. After he and their son Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and she was rescued, she built the $2,000,000 Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband...
Died. Chester Alan Arthur, 73, sportsman and art collector, eldest son and namesake of the 21st U. S. President; of a. heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo...