Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overshadowed by his older brother, Amadeo Peter Giannini, head of Transamerica Corp., Attilio Giannini had quietly grown into a unique relationship with the cinema industry. Cut out to be a doctor, he took his M.D. at the University of California, doctored 6,000 Negro troops stationed at San Francisco's Presidio during the Spanish-American War, worked day & night through the terror of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, nearly died of typhus. Meanwhile Brother Amadeo's bank, having been demolished in the earthquake, moved into Attilio's house. When he recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager...
...Lady Hamilton, wife of the English Ambassador, Nelson's mistress, a huge, handsome, hearty woman who had been picked up in a London brothel only a few years before. It was commonly believed that Lady Hamilton's influence over the Queen was the result of a perverse relationship. The court was one of the most corrupt in Europe. Yet revolutionists like Fernando did little more than repeat scandals about the nobles, fearing the wild, starving, superstitious Neapolitan mobs almost as much as did the aristocrats and the Queen...
...light which has guided President Conant to the heart of every problem which has faced him is his conception of the relationship that exists between the privately endowed educational institution and the nation. Pursuing this line of thought he has reached conclusions which have led him to strike out on the road toward a Harvard suited to serve both the United States and humanity with a maximum of efficiency...
...such an extent that they vomited persistently, became listless. When the children were on the verge of dying from hypercalcemia. the doctors stopped the parathyroid injections. At once the victims perked up, ceased vomiting-and ceased purpuric bleeding. Last week Drs. Lowenburg and Ginsburg ventured: "A cause and effect relationship between the hypercalcemia and the apparent cures is suggested, although there appear to be no sound theoretical grounds for such a conclusion...
...Manhattan court ordered pink-cheeked, white-whiskered Realtor-Philanthropist August Hecksher, 88, to continue paying plump, blonde Operasinger Frieda Hempel, 51, $15,000 a year for the rest of her life. Thus aired was an interesting domestic relationship. In 1926 Singer Hempel divorced her husband, supposedly to wed Millionaire Hecksher. Year later, she sued Millionaire Hecksher for breaking an oral contract to pay her $48,000 a year to "sing for no one but him." Philanthropist Hecksher settled with a written contract to pay her $15,000 a year for life, in return for which he retrieved numerous letters...