Word: iv
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, 27, LL.D. (Leyden), thick-legged heiress to the throne of the Netherlands; and Prince Bernard of Lippe of Germany, 25, lawyer, employe of the German dye trust, nephew of Prince Leopold IV. Since she reached her majority no more burning issue has Holland had than the question of wholesome Juliana's consort...
PEOPLE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!-R. H. (Bob) Davis-Stokes ($3). Travel notes of a columnist that range from brief impressions written in Mexico and South Africa to scribblings in an airplane over California, and include anecdotes about Artemus Ward, discussions of the Regency of George IV and English rule of India...
...high-school boy and girl. Gibson reports that guitars now account for 95% of its sales, compared to 5% before Depression. Another leading stringed instrument maker is C. F. Martin & Co., which is not to be confused with the Elkhart band instrument company. President is C. Frederick Martin IV, a suave, blond young man who is also president of National Association of Musical Merchandise Manufacturers. Says he: "My family has been in the business 90 years. . . . Americans as a class are attaining real musical appreciation for the first time...
...governess, the Baroness Lehzen; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William; Lord Melbourne, whose wife had been Caroline Lamb, Byron's widely-publicized mistress; King Leopold of Belgium, who thought he could control England through his influence with Victoria and the Prince Consort; Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Tennyson, George IV...
Founder Thomas did not live to see his home town renamed Thomaston, but he left a good business and an honorable tradition to Seth Thomas II and other sons, who passed them on to Seth Thomas III and finally to Seth Thomas IV. The Thomases stuck to quality products, but their line broadened to include nearly everything from delicate chronometers to the world's biggest clock, installed in 1924 in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's Jersey City plant for the benefit of commuters across the Hudson River. Seth Thomas IV was president of his family concern from 1915 until...