Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan were a kingdom, tall, dark Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller III might well be a princess. Like a good princess, 25-year-old Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller has a deep sense of social duty. Straight from Vassar in 1931 she jumped in as a volunteer worker for Manhattan's Charity Organization Society. Today while her husband helps administer the munificent charities of his House, she continues to work long & hard for the poor through two organizations...
...Manhattan last week popped a Johann Strauss III on his way to Chicago to conduct a 45-piece waltz orchestra at the swank French Casino. Johann Strauss III is 68, a grandson of Johann Strauss I, a nephew of Johann Strauss II whom he greatly resembles. Johann III has the old Strauss way of conducting while fiddling. He inherited his uncle's job as Court Ball conductor for old Emperor Franz Josef. But for most Viennese his chief claim to fame is his name. His compositions (he brought "ein trunksful'') are mediocre and rarely played...
Even a king as young as Leopold III could not miss that cue. Next day the mob was saying that His Majesty had sent M. Jaspar packing and M. Jaspar was saying that he had voluntarily returned the royal mandate because he could not get M. Francqui into his Cabinet...
...Royal Italian Big-Game Hunt reached a glorious climax in the jungles of Italian Somaliland when King Vittorio Emanuele III brought down a bull elephant with a single shot...
Divorced. Marshall Field III, Chicago department store scion; by Audrey James Coats Field, goddaughter of King Edward VII; in Reno. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty...