Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Putnam Jr. tripled his father's fortune, came at last to old age and the problem of how to dispose of the gains from 60 years of grubbing by one of the cagiest father-son money-making teams in U. S. history. A bachelor, Henry Putnam Jr. consulted no one, cocked his feet on his old desk, wrote a will. Last year he died. Last week it became known that after specific bequests to hospitals and other charities, he left the bulk of his estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although...
...Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin' Face. But just as the preacher said the words "I now pronounce you . . ." two shots broke up the wedding. Next few episodes found Puddin' Face merrily charging gewgaws against Andy...
...Decembers, Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres's Christmas present to U. S. business has been a speech to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, forecasting the coming year's prospects. Last December the country's No. 1 bachelor economist prepared business leaders for substantially better business in 1939, especially in the first half year. He said: "The monthly average of industrial production was 110* in 1937, and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about...
...stage family; and Annabella, 26-year-old French cinemactress (real name: Suzanne Georgette Charpentier) ; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Paris publisher, blonde, pert Annabella got her cinema name and fame as a protégéé of French Director René Clair. Once-widowed, once-divorced Annabella and Bachelor Power became friends last year during the filming of Suez...
...week's directors' meeting President McCarter declared: "I feel that the time has come when I should lighten up a little." Obedient as ever, the directors created the new post of chairman of the board for Thomas McCarter, upped Vice President Edmund Waring Wakelee, a silver-haired bachelor of 69, to the presidency. This took some routine executive work from founder McCarter's tiring shoulders, but he made it clear that he remained the boss...