Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategy meeting, announced their willingness to form a government. As the nation's largest party, they proposed a coalition Cabinet under their burly Secretary General Maurice Thorez, who spent most of the war years comfortably in Moscow. A more likely candidate of the Left coalition was oracular Socialist Vincent Auriol, foreign-affairs expert and a middleman in his party's divided house...
Divorced. Vincent Youmans, 47, star-crossed songwriter (Tea for Two, Time on My Hands, Without A Song) who was stricken at meridian (in 1934) with t.b. and has never fully recovered: by Mildred Boots Youmans, 40 ("I do not mind admitting it"), onetime Ziegfeld girl; after more than ten years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
John Jacob Astor, grandson of Mrs. William Astor, grande dame of the original Four Hundred, failed to make the grade. But ex-Wife Ellen Tuck French Astor made it, so did half-brother Vincent...
Divorced. James Vincent Sheean, 46, best-selling journalistic bird of passage (Personal History, Not Peace But A Sword) ; by beauteous Diana Forbes-Robertson Sheean, 31, youngest daughter of oldtime actor Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson; after ten years of marriage, two daughters; in Reno...
...Other delegates: Agriculture Minister James Gardiner; Secretary of State Paul Martin; Hume Wrong, Under Secretary in the External Affairs Department; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom...