Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie Jr., 34, fun-loving Manhattan and Philadelphia socialite-sportsman, divorced secretly last March by Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle, niece of the late great tobacco tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck"') Duke, daughter of the late Benjamin Newton Duke who left her over $50,000,000 in 1929; and Mrs. Margaret Boyce Thompson Schulze, 34, only daughter of the late mining tycoon Col. William Boyce Thompson who died last June (TIME, July 7, 1930) leaving an estate of over $85,000,000: in London...
...Atlantic two miles off Long Beach, N. J. where Chris Nelsen and Harry Hansen were emptying their lobster catch into their motor dory, two buck deer hove alongside. The astonished fishermen noosed the two animals, hauled them aboard, took them ashore. The game warden, who turned the bucks loose in their proper woods, guessed dogs had run them into the water...
Sirs: Your mention of Buck Duke (Duke's Mixture, Duke Power Co., Duke University) in TIME, April 27, brings to mind an incident frequently quoted in this section. A new Methodist minister in Durham met his Church's famous benefactor for the first time. Asked he. "Are you the Buck Duke who belongs to -he First Methodist Church?" Answered Buck, "No, I'm the Buck Duke the First Methodist Church belongs to." BERTRAM H. BROWN...
...praise to James Buchanan Duke's gift of $40,000,000 to Trinity College of Durham in return for taking his name and two pages of eulogy to him in TIME of April 27, you owe it to your readers to give them the following additional information concerning Buck Duke...
...Goose Step by Upton Sinclair we read: "Today he (Buck) boasts that he is worth 400 millions. . . . Assuming that his services in providing the world with tobacco were worth $100 a week it would have taken 154,000 years to earn his own share of this money. A decision of the U. S. Supreme Court on his money-making methods contains the assertion that he 'persistently, continuously and consciously violated the law.' " I quote again: "This man who is worth $400,000,000 pays only $828 taxes in the State where he lives in a magnificent palace...