Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naming the cook as corespondent, His Grace obtained a divorce in 1930 and shortly thereafter married the wealthy daughter of Mrs. Joseph Henry Patterson of Manhattan. Living on her little allowance, May Etheridge bore the Duke no ill will...
...looked out of his carriage. At first he did not know me. . . . Then he stepped on the platform and we walked up and down. . . . We talked of our other brothers. He gave me a cigar. And all the time his guards were following. . . ." Last year Rabbi Vallach; ill, wrote to Maxim-Moses for money. Back came a reply from Litvinoffs secretary: "According to ... the Soviet Constitution money may not be sent outside Russia, and Comrade Minister Litvinoff will not break...
Died. Auguste Escoffier, 88, famed chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
Savage though his attack on the holding company has been, President Roosevelt apparently realized that a $12,000,000,000 industry could not be reorganized overnight without ill effects on general business. The future Public Utility Act of 1935 contemplates a gradual liquidation. All holding companies, unless specifically exempted, must register before next October with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which will thereafter hold an almost absolute veto power over holding company finances, including the issuance of new securities and the purchase and sale of assets...
...Vols. Ill & IV)-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner...