Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following the example of Senator Ashurst who recanted his opposition to increasing the membership of the Supreme Court (see p. 10), the President's eldest son James, now a member of the White House secretariat, traveled to Gardner, Mass. There with voice and delivery startlingly like that of his father (including pronunciation of the "t" in "often"), he publicly urged that Massachusetts ratify the Child Labor Amendment, reversing his stand of two years...
...King Leopold, no Prince Charles, no Queen Mother Elisabeth, not a single member of the Government. Reason for this sudden change of royal plans was that the Rexists, Belgium's two-year-old Catholic-Fascist party, decided at the last minute to use the occasion for a mass rally. Because royalty must be above politics, King Leopold and his entourage stayed at home while 5,000 Rexists rallied at the Death spot. Though Rexists take their name from the Latin Rex (King), they are not the King's party but "followers of Christ" (Christus...
...successively married and was divorced by Minna Field, niece of Chicago's late Marshall Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties and fun, died broke and unattended by any of them or by his four children...
Married. Francis Edward Kelly, 33, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; and Marion McDonald, 20, of East Boston, his nurse during a recent attack of influenza; in Dorchester, Mass...
Meantime Franz Joseph had been finding plenty to do at the office. His hodge-podge empire, he discovered, was a seething mass of anachronisms, misgovernment, discontent. To get a better idea of how the land lay, see which fences needed mending most, he began making the rounds of his property. On some of these trips he took Sisi with him. In the Italian provinces, where Austrian misrule was worst, even the paid hands would not clap the royal owners. At the Scala in Milan, the audience had to be commanded to attend, under penalty of fines: the aristocrats sent their...