Word: nyi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Kálmán Darányi de Pusztaszentgyörgy és Tetétlen, 53, onetime (1936-38) Premier of Hungary; after long illness; in Budapest. A pro-Habsburg monarchist, K࣋mán Darányi squelched a Nazi putsch in 1937, lost prestige when he swallowed Naziism after Germany swallowed Austria...
Died. Count László Széchényi, 59, one-time (1922-33) Hungarian Minister to the U. S., husband of Gladys Vanderbilt; of a heart attack; in a Budapest sanatorium...
Married. Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, 21, daughter of Sir Guy Montagu George Finch-Hatton. 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham; and Whitney Straight, 22, Manhattan socialite automobile racer; in London, four days after the marriage of her brother, Viscount Maidstone, to Countess Gladys Széchényi (TIME, July...
...hard driving, onetime Tennessee storekeeper who made a fortune during the Civil War, married off his daughters to socialites. The total value of Mrs. Vanderbilt's was not revealed. She divided a $7,000,000 trust fund between her daughters Countess (Gladys) Széchényi and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, three grandsons and two granddaughters. "The Breakers," her famed home at Newport, and her town house in Manhattan also went to Countess Széchényi. A $150,000 legacy and funds remaining from the sale of the old Vanderbilt chateau on west 57th Street were...
East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...