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Assistant-Attorney General Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt started another speaking tour, in West Virginia, Tennessee, South Dakota, Minnesota, California. At St. Paul, she was to be matron of honor at the wedding of Miss Laura Ellen Volstead (daughter) and Carl Joys Lomen, Alaska's reindeer tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Particularly gigotté and appetizing was a gigolo who recently invited a bejeweled Manhattan matron, one Mrs. Josephine Neumann, 55, to ride with him in the forest of St. Germain-en-Laye. The gigolo said he had sold an automobile to Mr. Neumann. Perhaps Mrs. Neumann also would like to purchase an automobile. Together they drove to St. Germain. Then in a solitary, romantic spot the gigolo suddenly stopped the car. But he made no romantic overtures. Instead, he brusquely demanded all her jewels and money. Mrs. Neumann refused. The gigolo grasped her throat, snatched her rings and pocketbook, tore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gigolos Licensed | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Married. Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, son of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, who is president of Leland Stanford University; and Ruth Jordan, San Francisco scionness; in Palo Alto, Cal. Herbert Hoover Jr. was best man; his wife matron of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Queen-Empress Mary, imperturbable, replied: "Tell matron the Queen has called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Phelps-Pratt | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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