Word: matriarchate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compose the Westminster Choir entered Leningrad last week. All were well versed in the Scriptures and in the art of singing (TIME, June 11). But without Mrs. Talbott they could never have been the first U. S. musical delegation to reach Soviet Russia. Dayton's 70-year-old matriarch had opened her own purse generously; all last spring she bustled about Manhattan to get the backing of businessmen. Her reward last week was great. In Leningrad the audience cheered when the Choir began with a rousing "Internationale," was pleased with nothing so much as its Negro spirituals...
Less precipitately, more than 60 other ''Hyde Park Roosevelts" were converging toward the family seat above the Hudson. All had one purpose: to be present at the 80th birthday of the matriarch of the clan, Sara Delano Roosevelt. At the birthday luncheon, from her seat beside her only child, she could see all her five grandchildren, three of her great grandchildren. Mr. & Mrs. Norman Hezekiah Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Sr., Col. & Mrs. Edward Mandell House were also on hand to wish the smiling dowager happy birthday. The President presented her with a fur motor robe, proposed...
...Talbott, Yale football captain in 1915, is president of N. S. Talbott Co., which controls Mc-Claren Ice Cream Cones, Friction Toys, and Vance Manufacturing Co. which makes steel in Pullman cars look like wood. There are 32 grandchildren who, like their parents, pay frequent visits to the matriarch in Dayton...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 68, matriarch of U. S. polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...
Riding in a drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right...