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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Active head of the new bank will be Clyde Edward Brenton, 61. The Brentons are an old Iowa banking family, with homestead at Dallas Center, 24 miles west of Des Moines. The late William Henry Brenton founded a private bank at Dallas Center, and extended it into a chain. He also acquired Iowa farm land. When he died his sons inherited the banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Des Moines Bank Merger | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...believer in presidential dignity, rarely does President Hoover lend himself to advertising publicity. Last week however he did, when Washington's Senator Dill brought to the White House for a presidential greeting Miss Helen Brenton of Tacoma, Wash., Smart Set's choice of a "Typical American Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Died. George Brenton McClellan Harvey, 64, editor since 1899 of The North American Review, and of the defunct Harvey's Weekly; "discoverer" of Woodrow Wilson, 1912; supporter of Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1920; Ambassador to Great Britain, 1921-23; of heart disease; in Dublin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Among the veterans of previous Triangle Club casts and choruses will be included Ave Sherry, Secretary of the Club, who is directing the dancing and playing the leading feminine role, William Brenton and Franklin Gary, of comedy fame, and "Jake" Slagle, who will slip from the position of star half back to veteran chorus girl...

Author: By The Princetonian., | Title: TRIANGLE CLUB CHOOSES BIG, BAD, BAGDAD PLAY | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

...Brenton T. Badley, who was born in India of missionary parents, was Professor of English in Lucknow College, is Secretary of the Centenary Movement in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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