Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While Patriarch Albert Maverick alternately glared and dozed, while the charges against Maury's co-defendants were dismissed, leaving Maury to stand alone, his trial raged in a superheated courtroom. A defense witness accused Burkett of once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost...
...dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite...
...which his father had once renounced his throne, he was said to have penned a similar letter. Mihai, Carol's son, was declared next in succession. Then King Ferdinand died, and little Mihai was put on the throne surrounded by a regency consisting of his uncle, Prince Nicholas, Patriarch Miron Cristea, Supreme Court President George Buzdugan...
...open secret that the late Rumanian Patriarch Miron Cristea, onetime Regent and later Premier, had affairs with numerous pretty chorus girls. Usual Rumanian comment: "More power...
Died. The Abuna Abraham, 77, blind Patriarch of the "Independent National Church of Ethiopia" (Coptic), who was appointed in 1937 by the Italians when the Abuna Cyril fled to Egypt and started a schism between the Ethiopian and Egyptian Coptic Churches; in Addis Ababa...