NEW APPOINTMENT
RICHEST GIRL'S HUSBAND AS U.S. DIPLOMAT President Roosevelt has nominated Mr James H. R. Cromwell the economist husband of Doris Duke, tobacco heiress and world's richest girl, as United States Minister to Canada. He has also nominated th<S Attor-neji-General, Mr Frank Murpnv, to the Supreme Court. The present Solicitor-General, Mr Robert Jackson, is to be AttorneyGeneral. Mrs Doris Cromwell is the only child of James Buchanan Duke, the tobacco magnate, who was born in a log cabin in North Carolina, started growing tobacco on a small scale when a youth,, and built up business which made him a multi-mil-lionaire. Duke died in 1924, leaving the bulk of his £.15,000,000 fortune to his daughter, who is now 27. Until her marriage, Mrs Cromwell led a secluded life. Her guardians feared that she would be kidnapped, and she rarciy left her home on a 5000-acre estate at New Jersey. After her marriage in 1935 to James Cromwell, who is the son of Mrs Edward Statesbury, wife of a member of the Pierpont Morgan banking linn, the heiress took up social work among the povertystricken miners of West Virginia.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 117, 31 January 1940, Page 7
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188NEW APPOINTMENT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 117, 31 January 1940, Page 7
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