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...Last year President Hoover was embarrassed when Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt, his brother-in-law, was arrested in Santa Monica for liquor possession. Mr. Leavitt was later acquitted in court (TIME. Nov. 23, Dec. 14). What the President's feelings were could only be guessed last week when he read an article in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine by his sister, Mary Hoover Leavitt. Excerpts from "My Brother, the President": "The last time I saw him was more than three years ago at the inauguration. . . . My brother and I spent a last half-hour together. We had to talk...
...Force out of Washington fortnight ago. But that did not break up the tatterdemalion army and scatter it home. With diplomacy replacing armed force, the rest of the job was accomplished last week by the combined efforts of Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio R. R., David Barry, brother-in-law of Steelman Charles Michael Schwab, and "Eddie" McCloskey. scrappy little Mayor of Johnstown...
...Fermata. In 1926 Fermata School was taken over by F. A. M. Tabor, owner of Aiken Preparatory School for boys. Principal Tabor moved the school to its present site at Whiskey Road & Gin Lane. He expanded the plant with tennis courts, gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool. A Cambridge man, brother-in-law of Sir John Broderick, onetime commercial counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, Principal Tabor invested Fermata with a strongly British atmosphere...
...Daughter Megan, Son Gwilym and the son's brother-in-law, Major Goromvy Owen. ?The present London Government has erected a brand new tariff wall around Great Britain (TIME, May 2) but this tariff applies to foreign not Dominion goods...
Germans, recalling how he took chemical patents from them as Alien Property Custodian during the War, and later exploited them as head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly apt exponent of the spirit of Fair Play. But affable "Pat" Garvan is a sportsman as well as a patriot. Last week he made two moves toward an end which he thinks important: transfusing the spirit of Fair Play from U. S. sport to U. S. business...