Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (pop. 21,000,000) one day 20 years ago, word reached a young woman named Lydia Gruchy that her brother Arthur had met his death in the War. Arthur Gruchy had been studying for the ministry. Grief-stricken, sister Lydia resolved to carry on for her brother, to do as much for God as a woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later...
Married. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, general managing director of potent Royal Dutch-Shell, divorced last month by Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyarov, Lady Deterding, on grounds of misconduct: and Charlotte Mina Knack, 38; in Amsterdam...
Divorced. Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, 70, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell; by Lydia Pavlovna Kon-doyarov, Lady Deterding, daughter of one White Russian general, ex-wife of another; in The Hague. Grounds: misconduct...
...reader whose primary interests are character and narrative will find the book clear to his reading. From all walks of life a variety of figures illustrates the thesis: Alderman Mrs. Beddows, the shrewd and courageous old lady, triumphant over an unhappy marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate daughter of an old rogue whose impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord...
...original stock. Few months ago the grandsons, President Arthur Pinkham, Vice President Daniel Pinkham and Secretary Charles Pinkham, got a temporary court order restraining the distaff branch of the family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry, 78-year-old Mrs. Aroline Chase Pinkham Gove, Lydia Pinkham's only living daughter, countered by asking the Supreme Court of Maine, where the company is incorporated, to appoint a receiver for the company, planning to outbid her nephews when the business was put on the block. Last month the first round went to the Pinkham grandsons when a Massachusetts...