Word: heir
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...issues then rested, while Italy stewed. There were reports of comings & goings between the Quirinal and the Vatican, where the U.S. had Harold Tittmann, a foreign service veteran, and Britain had Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Leeds. Papal Envoy Enrico Galeazzi showed up in Lisbon, said he was bound for the U.S. to buy supplies for the Vatican. Financier Giovanni Fummi registered at London's Claridge's; presumably he was executing a mission for the Vatican...
Died. John Cudahy, 55, heir to meat packing millions, onetime Ambassador to Belgium; of a broken neck when his horse threw him ; on his estate near Milwaukee, Wis. He retired from diplomacy after the Nazis came to Belgium, campaigned for America First and a referendum on war. Six months before Pearl Harbor he got an exclusive interview with Hitler, whom he detested...
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., 49, asbestos heir; and Macie Marie Ainsworth Ettinger ("Sunny") Moran, 19, twice-married ex-chorine; in Manhattan. The marriage lasted 7 hr. 45 min. At week's end Mrs. Manville No. 7, fortified with a book about the Medici, took a train to Reno, and New York State Senator Louis B. Heller said he would sponsor a bill to outlaw matrimonial Houdinis who "affront the majesty and dignity of the state...
...Socialism. He also criticized capitalism for its religious and human indifference to the conditions of the workers and for the way in which more & more power was concentrated in the hands of fewer & fewer capitalists. Liberalism† the Pope called "the father of Socialism" and declared that its "heir" is Bolshevism; for, like Communists, most Catholics regard liberals as people who would be Communists if they had the courage or the understanding to see the implications of the liberal position...
...famed surgeon, onetime president of the American Medical Association (1917-18); in Lake Forest, Ill. Dr. Bevan, University of Chicago surgical lecturer since 1901, originated the "hockey-stick" incision for gall-bladder operations, was one of the largest stockholders among Diamond Match Corp. directors (his wife was sole heir to Match Tycoon Ohio Columbus Barber...