Monday, Feb. 19, 1934
Married. Irene Helen Robbins, 19, only daughter of U. S. Minister to Canada Warren Delano Robbins (cousin of President Roosevelt); and Alexander Cochrane Forbes, 24, Boston socialite (Groton-Harvard) ; in Ottawa. A special train bore some 200 U. S. guests, including Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Ball, many another notable. The bride's mother revealed that young Mr. Forbes had declined an invitation from President Roosevelt to hold the ceremony in the White House.
Married. Dorothy ("Sunshine") Browning, 19, adopted daughter of Edward W. ("Daddy") Browning. Manhattan realtor and orphan fancier; and Clarence B. Hood, 20, laundryman of Dunn, N. C.; in Manhattan.
Awarded. To Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson, 69, progressive educator, principal of Philadelphia's Southern High School for girls: the Philadelphia award for conspicuous civil service (scroll, medal, $10,000). She is the first woman recipient since the award was founded in 1921 by the late Edward Bok.
Convicted. Alvanley Johnston. Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, for mishandling banking funds; in Cleveland, B. L. E. headquarters. Charges had to do with a Brotherhood debt which Cleveland's Standard Trust Bank, partly owned and managed by the Brotherhood, undertook to pay in violation of the law. The court reserved sentence.
Died. Adelaide Lyman Pierce Insull, 36, Chicago Junior Leaguer, wife of Samuel Insull Jr.; of pulmonary embolism following a kidney operation; in Chicago.
Died. Edwin Perkins ("Ned") Brown, 65, board chairman of Boston's United Shoe Machinery Corp.; of angina pectoris; in Boca Raton, Fla. He joined United Shoe soon after his father and others formed it in 1899. Intrenched behind airtight patents and a leasing system, United Shoe was more than once under fire as a monopoly, lost a battle to the U. S. Government twelve years ago. But last quarter it declared an extra dividend.
Died. August A. ("Gussie") Busch Sr., 68, famed St. Louis brewer; by his own hand (pistol), following long illness; in his palatial home at Grant's Farm outside St. Louis. Son of Founder Adolphus of the Anheuser-Busch brewery (Bndweiser), "Gussie" Busch carried the family business safely through Prohibition, continued the family tradition of liberal philanthropy. Snubbed by snobbish socialites, he and his family attained an enviable social standing without their help. For the last several months Brewer Busch had been ridden by heart trouble and gout.
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