Word: benjamin
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Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...
...rich woman. Sarah P. Duke, widow of power-tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Duke, evidently was not greatly worried, for her will, probated last week, showed that she still felt able to leave a fat slice of her fortune to Education (see p. 54). The high cost of death taxes last week caused the anxious heirs of the late Harold...
...Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only tobacco but electric-power and basic-warfare-chemicals securities. Late Son Benjamin Newton...
...Manhattan court last week, still another $1,500,000 rippled into the duchy's coffers, from the estate of Benjamin's widow, Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, who died last month (TIME, Sept. 14). Dukes still to be heard from were "Buck's" widow, Nanaline Holt Duke, and his rich and beauteous daughter, Doris Duke Cromwell...
Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery had no comment to make on his end of the rug case but President Benjamin H. Roberts of Bird & Son declared: "The transaction involved in this case was made prior to the passage of the Robinson-Patman act. . . . Bird . . . has exercised great vigilance in endeavoring to observe this law and avoid any controversy. The issue in the case is of such a character as to probably clarify some doubtful provisions of this...