“PURCHASE” OF TITLES
JUDGE’S SCATHING ATTACK ALLIANCES IN AMERICA (Bine. Tel. Copyright—TTr,ive4 Pr.-ss Assn.; NEW YORK, July 17. In ordering the annulment of the marriage of Clendenin Ryan, junior, one of the leading heiis to Thomas Fortune .Ryan’s estate of 13a million dollars, Mr. Justice Cotillo uttered a scathing attack upon the “purchase and sale” of foreign titles by and to Americans' with large fortunes. The order sets aside the alliance which the young heir, who is now serving as one of the secretaries to the Mayor,'Mr. Laguardia, contracted with an attractive countess, Marie Ann Von Wurbband Stuppach, of Vienna, and which the court; stigmatised as “a plot or scheme concocted in a foreign country by members of the so-called nobility or titled class who had been rendered desperate by the needs ciigendcrd by poverty and desire to obtain means to continue their luxurious existence by any methods save honest effort.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 5
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