Show Notes
An heiress has her hands full battling the tax man while flirting with a new aristocratic suitor.
May 1933, Doris Duke finds herself with another potential aristocratic suitor the impoverished Earl of Warwick, but she has more potential trouble coming from the IRS trying to collect more taxes on her estate.
Other people and subjects include: Nanaline Duke, James HR Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” John Jacob Astor VI aka “Jakey,” James “Buck” Duke, Edward E.T. Stotesbury, Eva Stotesbury, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Walker Inman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Donna Christina Torlonia (Cristina / Christiana / Cristiana,…), Elsie Moore Torlonia, Earl of Warwick Charles Guy Fulke Greville, William Rhinelander Stewart, Greta Garbo, Lili Damita, Amelia Earhart, Colony Club - Manhattan, New York City, Hollywood, Supreme Court, appeal, reject, Internal Revenue Service – IRS, tax evasion, Atlanta Penitentiary, Byzantine Empress Irene, French Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, British Queen Elizabeth I, Russian Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible, chess set, Il Duce Benito Mussolini, Rachele Guidi Mussolini, Clara Petacci, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, mistress, wife, stepsister, dictator, World War II, California Railway Commission, gas rate cuts, Los Angeles, Chicago and Indiana radio stations, air waves, Jamaica ginger, ginger extract, Prohibition, jake, partial paralysis, *ginger paralysis (referenced not directly mentioned), castor oil extract, phosphate poisoning, Spain, Germany, Italy, Morrocco, jake walk, jake dance, jake leg, John Addis, A.C. Addis, Kansas wholesale grocers, President of Hub Corporation Harry Gross, The Untouchables TV Series Season 2, illusion, delusion, social media, retelling stories, supernova explosion, Baltimore bridge, right side of history, dark sides of history, chaotic times
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