Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Garvan's Random Thoughts. Francis Patrick Garvan, lawyer, onetime (1919) Alien Property Custodian, brother-in-law of Nicholas Frederic Brady (Anaconda Copper), received in absentia the society's Priestley Medal, its highest award, for "distinguished service to chemistry," for being "the greatest lay patron of chemistry in this country." He organized and is president of Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends...
Orville Wright, writing on his late brother Wilbur, says that the Brothers Wright turned their eyes skyward and invented the first motored airplane after reading about gliders in Germany...
...while timekeeper for a construction company. He borrowed $2,500 from Emily del Pino, started his magazine. He never paid back the money, she says. After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister). When Greater Chicago prospered he "stayed away from home . . . found amusement and pleasure in gambling dens." treated Plaintiff Burns with "utter contempt...
...that time, the soapmaker was never the soap-seller. Manufacturers sent out soap-bars which whole- salers made into cakes and stamped with their own names. After some years in his father's business, William Lever decided that the possibilities of expansion were too limited, and, with his brother, James D'Arcy Lever, became a maker and seller of soap alone. He picked out "Sunlight" for his brand name and had it copyrighted throughout the world before he made a single...
Betty Jean Hoover, 4, learned last week that she would live in Washington. D. C. Not the daughter of President Hoover, or of his brother Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University, or of his White House Major Domo Ike Hoover or of Herbert W. (vacuum cleaners) Hoover, or of any one of a half dozen other important Hoovers (TIME: Dec. 24) who might seek to live there. Washington was only a word which brought smiles to the faces of Betty Jean's parents. Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Hoover and of chummy F. A. Greeley...