Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were able to help found the Chemical Bank (now the giant Chemical Bank & Trust Co., with which Roosevelts are stillassociated). As a big-time house, Roosevelt & Son helped finance Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable, floated James J. Hill's first railroad bonds, did battle with Robber Baron Jay Gould...
...lives most of the year at Newport, in a 40-room Tudor-style house, "Fairholme," where a picture of Napoleon by David hangs in his room. From there, he usually goes to New York each Monday night, goes back each Thursday night. As befits a railroad baron, he always travels in his private car. His Cleveland office is a Kubla Khanish relic of the Van Sweringens. But his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building are small and unlisted on the building directory. He does not need a large office because "I carry the business in my head...
...first: Musicomedienne Sylvia Hawkes, a pub keeper's daughter, whom he divorced in 1935, naming her future second husband, the late film actor, Douglas Fairbanks, as corespondent. In 1944 she married Baron Stanley of Alderley...
...Died. Baron Robert de Rothschild, 66, who, with his cousin Baron Edouard de Rothschild, headed the Rothschild bank in Paris before the Nazi occupation; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A lifelong racing enthusiast, he owned one of the most famous stables in prewar France, a private track, a polo field (where he played under the name M. Errer). Another property: Chateau Lafite-Roths-child, producer of one of the world's best red wines...
...long time. Singing & dancing have been customary since 1723, spoken dialogue since 1814. The great joy of every panto player is the matchless exuberance of his audience. Last year Nervo & Knox, two fine slapstickers with 26 years in panto, so worked up their youthful audience against the Baron (Variety Artist Eddy Gray) that he could not speak his lines for the din; when Nervo yelled, "Come on, kids, let's kill the Baron," more than a hundred of them stormed on to the stage and stopped the show...