Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War period, as during neutrality, the Guggenheims, William Rockefeller (brother of John D.) and John D. Ryan, heavy owners of copper stocks, made big profits. While neutrality lasted so did speculators such as Jesse L. Livermore and Bernard Baruch. But speculative profits in commodities were reduced when the U. S. Government took control of prices as a war measure. Speculator Baruch himself headed the War Industries Board which fixed the prices...
...Tory M.P.s holding 109 directorships, giving heavy industry the heaviest representation among Conservatives in Parliament. Sir Alfred Beit, descendant of diamond-mining South African pioneers, is a director of airplane-manufacturing firms as well as of an African railway. Lieut. Colonel Henry Guest, Viscount Wimborne's brother, is a director of the $75,000,000 Guest, Keen & Nettlefold's iron, steel and coal company, of Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries with a capacity of 20,000,000 tons annually. The Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery is a director of Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., famed British warship...
...bill introduced into the Wisconsin Senate to abolish the university's 14-man Board of Regents, replace it with a nine-man board, which the Governor would appoint. The Milwaukee Post reported that Governor Heil had said to a Senator: "If we can pass this regents bill, Brother Dykstra can look around for another job." The Senate did pass the bill, sent it to the Assembly. Last week the Assembly passed it, sent it back to the Senate with a minor amendment, which was expected to be quickly accepted...
Last April, at the age of 77, Dr. William James Mayo, elder of the Rochester (Minn.) Clinic's famed Mayo brothers, went under the knife for an ailment he had often treated: perforating gastric ulcer. For a while "Dr. Will" rallied, but all the magnificent resources of the Mayo Clinic failed to save his old, wornout body. Last week Dr. Will died. He had survived his brother, Dr. Charlie, his lifelong friend and partner, by only two months. Still practicing in Rochester is the last of the Mayos, Dr. Charlie's son, 41-year-old Dr. Charles William...
...dignified Thomas Mann shinnied self-consciously down the Ivory Tower and announced that a writer's business is to be political as well as literary. Elder Brother Heinrich Mann might have snickered in his lush Van Dyke beard, for Brother Thomas was only preaching what Brother Heinrich has spent a lifetime practising. For some 40 of his 68 years he has been writing a series of historical novels which constitutes a political and sociological record of the German people from Kaiserdom to "folkdom." If there is no Magic Mountain among his collected works, Brother Heinrich might well claim that...