Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Mike Romanoff, alumnus of Princeton, Harvard, Oxford. Eaton, and several sister institutions, has disappointed his host of admirers. This lightning witted gent who rose from a New York orphanage and sundry reform schools to be lionized by social registries here and abroad has belied his career...
Then the Brothers Moss-Mike (not Michael) and Washington Irving-worked their way into the good graces of the Brothers Vaccaro. The Mosses ran a small insurance agency inherited from their father. Mike Moss persuaded the Vaccaros to invest their millions in things other than bananas. They bought the famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling...
...officer did his duty. Thus last week, for the fourth time in ten years, Manager Ballinger, who first met Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson (alias Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff) in Dunhill's London shop, had set the Law on his slick little customer. As of yore, Mike's craving for Royal Yacht pipe tobacco, at $10 per lb., had gotten him in trouble. He simply cannot keep a.way from Dunhill's and its fragrant mixture, which was first recommended to him, he claims, by his royal friend "David" (Prince of Wales...
Immigration authorities at Ellis Island, where Mike was to be found next day wearing a tiger orchid pinned to his sweater, were not quite sure what they could do with their prisoner. When he arrived in Manhattan three weeks ago after a year spent chiefly in French jails for stowing away on the He de France and later lifting other people's travelers' checks, Mike told his many barroom friends that he had arrived on the Euro pa, stowage (TIME, Jan. 2). But the Government's case against him for illegal entry on the Europa began...
...little natty man with a toothbrush mustache entered a Manhattan speakeasy one evening last week very quietly. He knew his getting out of the hat at all was a sensation. Last seen in a Paris jail after a U. S. woman missed a $100 American Express check, Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), 42, all-time amateur impostor, ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have just landed. Michael R." Talking fast in his baa-baa Oxford...