Word: netcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Constance Talmadge Netcher, 38, oldtime silent cinemactress; from her third husband, Townsend Netcher, wealthy Chicago socialite; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...Maurice L. Rothschild, directly across State St. from the new Goldblatt super-bargain palace; Henry C. Lytton's Hub, across the other boundary street, Jackson Boulevard; the old Spiegel-Cooper store (now Sears, Roebuck) down the street: the Brothers Mandel on the "world's busiest corner"; the Netcher's Boston Store; Komiss Co., ad infinitum...
Howland and Baker, 25 mi. apart, are some 1,100 mi. due west of Jarvis. Howland was first sighted by Captain George E. Netcher out of New Bedford in 1842. Fifteen years later the U. S. S. St. Mary's formally took the islands for the U. S. What, then, was all the official secrecy about in reclaiming this land? The answer seemed to lie in a brand new factor in Pacific diplomacy: transoceanic airlines...
...courtroom perked up last week when Constance Talmadge and Peggy Hopkins Joyce took the stand as Government witnesses. They were among the 14 depositors from whom the bank had allegedly appropriated money. Constance Talmadge Netcher, now the wife of a Chicago department store owner, arrived in black & white, her face deeply tanned, her mouth crimson with lipstick. It took her seven minutes to declare that she had authorized no borrowings for the purchase of bank stock, had known nothing about the transactions until a Government agent called upon her. The judge smiled indulgently, the jury gossiped in whispers...
...Herbert Hamilton Harty was conducting the orchestra while a young woman rehearsed a 'cello solo. When the orchestra finished playing, her father stepped up to the podium, punched Conductor Harty exclaimed : "The orchestra played so loud I couldn't hear her." At a party given by Irving Netcher, rich Chicagoan, and Roszika Dolly Netcher at Juan-les-Pins, France, a guest told Lord & Lady Milford Haven, cousins of Britain's George V, that champagne is good for dance-tired feet. She ordered some to try it. After the party Host Netcher was billed $100 for "champagne...