Word: jr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among those who saw the last of Republican Madrid was Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He had gone to Loyalist Spain on a British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon...
Harvard Freshman Lothrop Withington Jr., son of a onetime (1910) Harvard football captain, started the fad sweeping U. S. campuses, as raccoon coats did some 10 years ago, as the Veterans of Future Wars did in 1936. In Withington's room in Holworthy Hall one night last month conversation turned on his aquarium. Freshman Withington boasted that he had once eaten a goldfish. A classmate remarked it would be worth $10 to see the feat repeated. Thereupon young Withington seized one of his pets by the tail, popped it into his mouth, chewed well, won his reward...
Married. Thomas Dixon Jr., 75, onetime Baptist preacher who made a fortune from his book, The Clansman (filmed as The Birth of a Nation); and May Donovan, 44, his literary assistant for 18 years; he for the second time, she for the first; in Raleigh...
...American Banker for August 15, 1935 an article on Government bonds took issue with various policies of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., concluded by asking whether they were due to "obstinacy, stupidity, or sheer ill advice." Secretary Morgenthau all but ordered the American Banker to send the unknown columnist, one S. F. Porter, to see him in Washington. The magazine refused in a vague letter from which all pronouns were conspicuously absent...
...source of glee to the tabloids but a source of resigned annoyance to dignified Johns-Manville Corp. was the announcement fortnight ago by Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr. that he had just picked his fifth wife-blonde Show Girl Yvonne Arden. Although for years Playboy Tommy has had no connection with the company from which he inherited his millions, his penchant for blondes makes frequent headlines in which he is inevitably labeled the "asbestos heir." This is one public relations problem that Johns-Manville has been unable to solve...