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Three-quarters of a century ago in Portland. Maine, a fierce form of religious fervor overtook a hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung...
...Nemours & Co. (TIME, May 6): an estate estimated as high as $100,000,000; in Jacksonville, Fla. To his third wife, Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont, go $200,000 a year, his Florida estate, "Epping Forest," his art collection, his yachts. To his four children and a brother-in-law executor, 5,000 shares each in his personal holding company, Almours Securities Inc. To other relations and retainers, securities and annuities. Income from the bulk of the estate, plus $1,000,000 cash and "Nemours," his famed Wilmington estate, with its 1,600 acres and fine mansion, goes to establish...
...Providence to Worcester, Mass., lost them there. That night Andino Merola's corpse was found filled with bullets beside a road near Wrentham, Mass. Next day postal inspectors and Providence police descended on Carl Rettich's big house on Warwick Neck, arrested his father, his sister & brother-in-law. Then they proceeded to make some discoveries which left Senator Gerry and Warwick Country Clubbers gaping...
...Damaging evidence for the defense was the testimony of Lammot du Font's cousin and brother-in-law, Francis I. du Pont, stockholder and director of Missouri-Kansas. Several "victims" of the Missouri-Kansas crash testified that they had bought the stock because salesmen told them the du Pont companies were backing Missouri-Kansas. Director du Pont emphatically declared that his dealings with Missouri-Kansas were entirely personal, that no oth er member of the family and no du Pont company was interested. There, said the prosecutor. Was that not clear proof that Frank Parish's salesmen...
Last week Railway Express Agency, "brother-in-law of the railroads," slashed its rates between the two biggest cities on the Atlantic seaboard. Railway Express will now carry packages up to 5 lb. between New York and Philadelphia for a flat 25? instead of a maximum of 40?; will carry 100 lb. for 75? instead of $1.45; 500 lb. for $3.64 instead of $7.25-an average reduction of 50%. Reason: competition from trucks...