Word: captain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Publisher Knowland ran the paper at a tidy profit, Widow Dargie went to Spain, was welcomed at court, visited the family of one Captain Antonio Rodriguez Martin. Widow Dargie took a fancy to Captain Martin, who was the exact age of her dead son, and took him to California. Captain Martin made an investigation of the Tribune, to see to it (so he said) that her interests were protected...
After the arrival of Captain Martin the friendship between Widow Dargie and her publisher cooled. Anonymous letters reached the U. S. Department of Labor urging his expulsion. Joe Knowland went to Washington. In 1927, and again in 1928, Captain Martin left the U. S. When he returned he had an appointment as vice-consul for San Leandro (a suburb of Oakland). He painted the Spanish coat-of-arms on the side of Mrs. Dargie's automobile, stuck a Spanish flag in the radiator...
...Herminia Peralta Dargie died, her devoted Captain Martin (but not Joe Knowland) at her bedside. To Captain Martin she left ("as I would have done had he been my son") one-half of her residuary estate, the other half going to her sister, Mrs. Josefa Peralta Wilson. Taking precedence over these legacies was some $300,000 of cash bequests, which Herminia Dargie had apparently intended to be paid out of Tribune profits...
Last week Wartime field artillery Captain Witter announced his successor, selected by the board of governors and sure to be elected at the I.E.A. convention in Del Monte, Calif, this October. This time I.B.A. reached into the Middle West, chose another Wartime battery commander: tall, spectacled, 48-year-old Emmett Francis Connely, president of First of Michigan Corp. First Detroiter ever to head I.E.A., socialite "Spike" Connely is also anti-New Deal, believes in letting others shout their antagonism while he does the best he can in sad days for banking...
...bishop's discretion to invest as he liked, and use for good works of any kind. In an attempt to recoup the losses, the bishop became involved with a promoter, one Harry S. Lyons, who called himself a onetime Navy captain. For a time Lyons made money for Bishop Ablewhite, and during these palmy days the two, sometimes with their wives, frequented Chicago nightspots. Finally, said the bishop, Lyons skipped out in 1935, taking with him a reported $250,000, including the $30,000 in diocesan money. Bishop Ablewhite believes that Lyons died last summer in Florida...