Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President-elect Roosevelt, with some 60 candidates to pick from, announced that he would not announce his Cabinet until after his return from a cruise aboard Vincent Astor's Nourmahal about mid-February. An unexpected guest on that cruise, it developed last week, would be Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President, fifth cousin of the President-elect. Thus was seen a patch-up between the Republican and Democratic branches of the Roosevelt family. An ardent Hooverite, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth wrote a note of congratulation to fifth Cousin Franklin shortly after his election. Last week Mrs. Longworth...
Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky, 31, sister of Vincent Astor, divorced wife of Prince Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky (of Russia's oldest noble family); and Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 26, Austrian writer, son of Richard Strauss's late librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal; secretly; in Newark...
Last week President-elect Roosevelt was back at his home-away-from-home, Warm Springs, Ga. There he was to pick his Cabinet before going off on Vincent Astor's Nourmahal for a fishing trip in Florida waters. The shank of February was to be spent either at Hyde Park or in the Capital itself at the Townsend home on Massachusetts Avenue. After that-the Inaugural, plans for which had grown so lavish last week that it was going to take General Pershing to lead the parade...
...Chicago. Vincent Bendix, automotive and aviation accessories man. sold the famed, ugly, reddish-brown Potter Palmer "castle" on Lake Shore Drive to a speculative syndicate. Still owned by Potter Palmer Jr. are the mansion's famed murals...
...curious about the new Pontiac he may have one sent to his plant and placed on his "Belgian Road." a machine which shakes and sways and jolts a car until finally some spring breaks or some nut wiggles loose. And if Packard's famed Major Jesse Gurney Vincent is curious about somebody else's chassis he may order one bent and twisted until he knows its points as well as if he had designed it. Just as inquisitive, just as skeptical, are the Industry's other engineers, including such men as Studebaker's Delmar ("Barney") Roos...