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...Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Parish, put up one team member. The wife of the head of the Allerton Hotels system, Mrs. James Stewart Cushman, vice president of the World Y. W. C. A., put up Dr. Buchman. Other hostesses to the visiting Groupers included Mrs. Edward V. Hartford, sister-in-law of the Great Atlantic & Pacific grocers; Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, wife of the onetime U. S. Minister to Guatemala and Colombia; Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, who was Gladys Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchman at Newport | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, 80, widow of Treasurer Benjamin Newton Duke of American Tobacco Co., sister-in-law of American Tobacco's late great Founder James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke;, in Blowing Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Died. Virginia Van Vliet Insull, sister-in-law of onetime Chicago Utilitarian Samuel Insull; after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. Her husband, Martin John Insull was implicated with his brother Samuel in the collapse of the Insull utility empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...chastened mood Anthony Eden went back to Geneva, leaving his little son Nicholas to act as page at his sister-in-law's wedding. At the same time Ethiopia's Minister to London, Dr. Azaj Wargnek Martin, suddenly found it impossible to obtain further British credits to buy munitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomacy Widow | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Carefully Hangman Hanna adjusted the arm straps, tightened around Killer Barrett's neck the stout $65 rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Job No. 69 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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