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...wifeless multimillionaire, he gallantly espoused a responsibility for finest U. S. music by accepting the Presidency of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gallantry | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

Determined to go down in history as the Cupid of the Age, Benito Mussolini last week started firing wifeless mayors. Beginning alphabetically with Alessandria Province he appointed married men to replace the bachelor mayors of several towns ending in "o." Next day the last bachelor in Il Duce's Cabinet, elegant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, hastily married at Trieste a widow with two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Birth Boost | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...fetched a potato scales and weighed the lot in the clothesbasket: 13 Ib. 6 oz. The Dionne roosters were crowing for dawn while Dr. Dafoe washed up, eased his suspenders, donned his coat and drove back to his wifeless, book-filled home. He needed a little sleep, for later that day he expected another confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quintuplets | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...Candidate Horner is wifeless, childless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Show Boat | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...workers because of their radical tendencies does not seem to be the proper method of meeting the situation. These radical organizations have recruited their ranks largely from unskilled laborers who are discontented with the present order because of hideous working conditions, because they are forced to be homeless and wifeless. Does not such a procedure only add fuel to the flame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ERRONEOUS LABOR POLICY | 11/2/1920 | See Source »

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