Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyebrow went up last weekend as the Presidential yacht Potomac chuffed out into Chesapeake Bay carrying Franklin Roosevelt and two highly interesting cruise guests, Senator and Mrs. Robert Marion La Follette Jr. of Wisconsin. Five days previously Young Bob, over a nationwide radio network, had signed on with his brother Phil's new political party. If Senator Bob was kinder to the President ("one of the great liberal leaders of modern times") in his speech than Governor Phil had been in Madison last month, he was equally firm in his conviction that the Roosevelt Administration was hopelessly bogged down...
...fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal of pale loitering and sounded a great deal like the hero of Richard Strauss's Heldenleben but as Opus...
Divorced. Ralph James ("Bottles") Capone, brother of Convict Al Capone; by Velma Capone; in Chicago, three days before their 10th wedding anniversary. Grounds: cruelty...
...estate valued at $2,985,908. In 1934 the Woolworth Countess established two trust funds for him totaling $2,251,189, few months later gave him securities worth $625,193. He was killed in 1935 in a motorcar accident in Spain. Under his will his two sisters and surviving brother (Brother Serge was killed in 1936 playing polo near Palm Beach) receive four-fifths, the Countess one-fifth...
...ever talk to your partner, George Whitney, about loans which he was making to his brother...