Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Oliver Malcolm Wallop, onetime Yale poloist, second son of the Earl & Countess of Portsmouth, of Barton House, Morchard Bishop, Devonshire, England; and Jean Moore, daughter of Edward Small Moore, Manhattan capitalist (cans, biscuits, railways, banks). At the death of his older brother in 1925, Young Wallop's father succeeded to the Earldom. Formerly he had been a Wyoming rancher, a naturalized U. S. citizen...
Died. Levi W. Hutton, 68, capitalist & philanthropist of Spokane, Wash.; of diabetes; in Spokane. His fortune was made in the lead-silver mining boom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Most modern is the Hutton settlement in Spokane, where 80 orphans are housed on 300 acres...
Died. George Nixon Black, 86, Boston capitalist & philanthropist, onetime largest individual taxpayer in the city; in Boston. Servants Gombi & Robrisch were willed...
...suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist Wilson to bedizen her shop. He has designed silver, rugs, furniture, including a modernistic multi-colored bar for Dr. Fenton Taylor of Manhattan. He has painted portraits of Actor...
...season progresses encomia will accrue to the Club's directors, but especially to Clifford Webster Barnes, founder of the club, onetime (1900-1905) Illinois College president, onetime (1918) Red Cross worker, capitalist, altruist, di vine. At Yale, Student Barnes, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., made his first efforts to bring sectarians together. Later, in Paris, Student Barnes assembled a small interdenominational group. Luncheon friends among Chicago business men he persuaded to become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon...