Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While she was being quietly ousted last week, two younger, more tractable career women received rich promotions. The wife of Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov, who bears a strange Semitic resemblance to the Duchess of Windsor, has for five years managed the Soviet cosmetic trust so efficiently that, aside from ball bearings, lipsticks are almost the only article manufactured in the U. S. S. R. comparable in quality to those of capitalist industry. So she was advanced to the post of Vice Commissar for the Food Industry. Appointed to take her place was a plump, personable ex-scrubwoman, Mme Tatiana Morozova...
...Academy of Political Science, a prosperous group of U. S. businessmen, professors and economists at whose gatherings white ties are more in evidence than Windsor bows, made large headlines in 1933 when George Bernard Shaw delivered a saucy socialistic speech under its auspices at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Last week the Academy, gathered for its 57th annual meeting at Manhattan's Astor Hotel, heard an equally newsmaking speech, neither saucy nor socialistic, by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
...last moment from cabin to tourist class. In a freshly refurbished suite (80-82) on A Deck had crossed not the two people who were to have made the voyage elaborately newsworthy and whose names still headed the official passenger list-Der Herzog und die Herzogin von Windsor-but Socony- Vacuum's Vice President Edwy R. Brown & wife of Dallas...
...announced tonight on behalf of the Duke of Windsor that he has decided to postpone his visit to America...
...make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton was in Manhattan this week a-tiptoe for the U. S. publication of his Scrapbook.) ± Sure to grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays...