Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first meeting 'since his marriage in June 1937 between the Duke of Windsor and other members of the royal family took place last week at the Windsor suite in the swank Hotel Meurice in Paris. The Duke's next to youngest brother, the Duke of Gloucester, accompanied by the Duchess, stopped off in Paris on the way home from an East African hunting trip to spend Armistice Day with the Windsors. Friends intimated that the meeting had been arranged and approved by King George, who has long been anxious for Queen Mary's sake to bring...
Harry Wolfe and his brother Robert ("Old Bob") bought the venerable Journal in 1902. (One story is that Bob fell in love with the Journal because it defended him when somebody tried to blackmail him.) Bob Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...
Died. Mary ("Typhoid Mary") Mallon. circa 70, first typhoid carrier ever identified in the U. S.; of a paralytic stroke; on North Brother Island in the East River. N. Y. In 1902 German Bacteriologist Robert Koch proved that typhoid could be spread by an apparently healthy person who was a walking repository of germs. In 1907 it was discovered that one Mary Mallon had been employed as cook in a number of homes where typhoid had broken out. She was examined against her will, found to be harboring typhoid bacilli, imprisoned on North Brother Island when she refused to have...
...Morgan & Co. at once retorted: "We deplore the reflections in the report of the Securities and Exchange Commission upon Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney. They are unjust and unwarranted. George Whitney did what any brother would do. . . . Mr. Lamont did what a friend and partner should have done-lent George Whitney temporarily the cash to make restitution possible. There was no concealment from the Stock Exchange and could not have been, for the Stock Exchange by its vice president and chairman of its Gratuity Fund had made the demand and received restitution, had with the approval of its counsel...
...bids for a return to the day when flivvers led the field: 1) a new car, the Mercury, to tap the middle-price field; 2) installation, at last, of hydraulic brakes in all models. Only other newcomer in the field is an oldtimer, the Overland, which reappears as big brother to the little Willys...