Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Mary Morris Hincks, direct descendant of John Hart, first graduate of Yale, of Bridgeport, Conn.; to Florimond Joseph Dusossoit, onetime (1917) captain of the Dartmouth football eleven, Southern Advertising Manager of TIME, the newsmagazine...
...Married. Captain the Hon. Michael Bowes-Lyon, brother of the Duchess of York; to Miss Elizabeth Cator, one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of the Duchess; in London...
...August the islanders will commemorate their sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the landing of Captain James Cook. From the small beginnings of civilization sown by that great navigator a flourishing community of more than 250,000 souls has developed. Eight of the nine islands are now inhabited...
Many years ago the late Captain James C. Corrigan bought vast iron ore fields in the Lake Superior district. The late Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller and the late William Rockefeller, was his partner. John D. Rockefeller loaned them money, taking a mortgage on the ore lands. He foreclosed the mortgage for needs of his own and later sold the minerals to the U. S. Steel Corp., prof iting greatly. Captain Corrigan was wrecked financially. Frank Rockefeller nourished an antagonism toward his brother John...
...Captain Corrigan then formed a partnership with the late Judge Stevenson Burke of Cleveland to make steel. They prospered, but in 1900 tragedy overtook Corrigan when his yacht Idler sank in Lake Erie, and Mrs. Corrigan, three daughters and a grandchild were drowned...