Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Harriet Green Huntington, $10,000,000 heiress, granddaughter of the late Henry Edwards Huntington, California tycoon & book-collector; and one Albert Doerr Jr., onetime (while at Stanford University) ice-truck-driver, mining engineer; in Pasadena, Calif...
...First he is more than a human fly. Through the first three-quarters of the picture he is funny with his characteristic and workmanlike kind of comedy. He is an ambitious salesman in a Honolulu shoe store who falls in love with a girl whom he takes for an heiress but who is really a private secretary. Fortunately, not much attention is paid to the plot, except as a framework for gags. Such a gag is the sequence in which he makes some light social remarks about a titled Englishwoman whose name happens to be the same as that...
Irving T. Bush, president of Bush Terminal Co., back in the U. S. from honeymooning in Europe with his third wife (former Marian Spore, Michigan heiress, Manhattan mystic and social worker) paid without protest $83,000 in duties and fines for undeclared jewelry worth $40,000. Officials stated there was no attempt at smuggling, simply a dispute over duties on jewelry purchased in the U. S., reset in Europe, brought back. Their fines paid, the Bushes sailed once more for Europe...
Buxom Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria last week personally read her Speech-from-the-Throne at the opening of the Netherlands Parliament. Not only Queen Wilhelmina, but indomitable Queen Mother Emma, portly Prince Henry (Wilhelmina's spouse) and plump Princess Juliana, heiress to the throne, were there, almost 700 Ib. of Royal Dutch...
...Heiress, Bloomfield drygoods merchant, is generally given credit for thinking up the plan. He organized and became president of the Bloomfield Retail Merchants Association. During his regime the Bloomfield Monitor of Feb. 23, 1928 carried a memorable proclamation by the merchants: No more retail credit would be given in Bloomfield after April 1. Any member of the Association caught extending credit would be fined $100. Twenty-two Bloomfield businesses backed the scheme...