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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, lean, hook-nosed Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 23, nephew and heir to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking family, walked with a party of friends into a gay British roadhouse known as The Ace of Spades, then walked out again without his lunch. Hearing rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...David Alec Wilson and David Wilson MacArthur-Button ($5). The sixth and final volume of Wilson's monumental biography of Thomas Carlyle, a lifetime's labor of love completed after Wilson's death last year from his notes and material by his nephew, MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...devoted to Swedes is Samuel Untermyer's demure, long-jawed nephew, Laurence Adolf Steinhardt. When President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Sweden year ago last April, Mr. Steinhardt rhapsodized: "The men of Sweden are tall and handsome. The women are beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Minister to Athletes | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Born, To Edwin H. Vare, Jr., 38, nephew of onetime Philadelphia Republican Boss William Scott Vare, and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. 31, five-time U. S. women's golf champion: a son; their second child; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1934 | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...officials said the trouble all started with a sassy kitchen hand named Severe Moreno. Y employes blamed Stewardess Dolores Uranga and Secretary Alberto Salinas Carranza, technical adviser to Mexico's Street Cleaning Department and nephew of onetime Mexican President Venustiano Carranza. Last month Severo Moreno sassed Stewardess Dolores Uranga, not for the first time. Secretary Carranza sentenced him to an eight-day suspension without pay, called a policeman to help enforce the sentence. Intolerable was that affront to the polysyllabic dignity of the Union de Obreros y Empleados de las YMCA, which consists of 77 cooks, waiters, janitors, clerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Y Out of Mexico? | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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