Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marines and regulars to China to participate in the international loot of Peking. Last week as death and destruction were being visited on China once more a faint echo of China's earlier troubles was heard in Buffalo, N. Y., where the Veterans of Foreign Wars, older brother of the American Legion, was assembled for its 38th encampment. For the first time since the World War the aging veterans who had tramped the plains of northern China found themselves in the V. F. W. spotlight. Their listeners were attentive, their pictures in demand for the convention's timely...
...reluctant witnesses by United States Attorney Lamar Hardy indicated that in 1933, Torrio's income was $150,000, that Prendergast Davies (now in other hands) had done a $4,500,000 business in 1934. Chief of Johnny Torrio's current associates appeared to be a brother-in-law named William Slock-bower. Said Mrs. Slockbower to reporters: "We never expected anything like this . . . I'm sure it's going to be a terrible surprise to my husband...
...than a month. As the courtroom emptied and Herbert Fleishhacker chased after Jack Neylan to find out what he thought the judge would decide, husky young Herbert Jr., onetime Stanford footballer and now manager of an Anglo branch, snorted: ''I want to meet that Frenchman!" When his brother Alan dissuaded him, he pleaded: "Father wouldn't have done anything like that...
Emergence of the soda fountain lunch in the 19203, a change in the public taste in decoration from sanitation to esthetics and (after Brother Samuel's death) Brother William 's espousal of vegetarianism put Childs on the skids. In 1929, after a grim fight for proxy control. Chairman Childs was forced out and General Counsel William A. Barber took his place. He and a new president, William Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead...
...childbirth; Mme Devereux's longed-for infant son also. Because the two families are old friends and because one has a plethora of daughters, the other of sons. Mme Devereux becomes foster mother to little Philippe. Claude, youngest of the Devereux girls, and Philippe are brought up like brother & sister...