Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indictments were part of an investigation of the supposed smuggling operations of Albert L. Chaperau, self-styled member of the Nicaraguan Consular Service and allegedly an international smuggler...
Divorced. Potter d'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family; by his third wife, Pauline, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: habitual intemperance and cruelty. Palmer's first two wives supposedly received divorce settlements totalling about $5,000,000, but the third Mrs. Palmer received only $250 a month alimony and counsels' fees ($10,000). Few days after his divorce, Potter Palmer married Pluma Louise Lowery Abatiello, 23, roadhouse waitress...
...London, the Almost Modern Order of Purchasers, a 17-year-old society whose 250 members are men "of good repute, who have made a darned stupid mistake or been badly done," met for its semi-annual dinner. Newest member: a patriotic stock-broker who was so carried away during the European crisis that he enlisted simultaneously in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force...
Soberly studious is Kansas City's big Book Chat Club. Founded 17 years ago by five ladies of whom four are still active, it has grown to take in 300 members, meets at the Hotel Muehlebach, discusses current bestsellers, without, say Kansas City booksellers, appreciably increasing book sales. But in Omaha, the Matthews Bookstore, biggest in the city, actively organizes book clubs, has been so successful that Omaha now boasts more of them than any city of its size in the U. S. Most influential is the Dundee. Complaining that there are not enough books with uplifting messages, Dundee...
Clement A. Norton, a member of the Boston City Council fired the first shot in the Guardian Conference on the Public Service which was opened by President Conant yesterday morning in Winthrop House Senior Common Room...