Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained close through the years. One day Grant spied Prime Minister MacDonald in a London subway, took him to task for wasting his energy unnecessarily, told him he should use a motor. When MacDonald, who had no private income, explained that he could not afford the upkeep of a car, Grant gave him one and endowed it with 30,000 preferred shares of McVitie & Price at ?1 each. Three months later Prime Minister MacDonald successfully advised King George V to confer a baronetcy on Grant. In the House of Commons, His Majesty's Loyal Opposition rose savagely to suggest...
Married. Howard Earle Coffin, 63, industrialist (Southeastern Cottons, Inc., Sea Island Co., Hudson Motor Car Co., National Air Transport, Inc.), host to Presidents Coolidge and Hoover at his Georgia coast estate; to Gladys Baker, 39, Florida newspaper woman; her third husband; in Manhattan...
George Pepperdine, a restless $15-a- week bookkeeper in a Kansas City (Kans.) garage, entered the auto supply business in 1909 with nothing to his name but $5 worth of stamps and a printing bill. Tirelessly circularizing small-town bankers and car owners, George Pepperdine sold that year $12,000 worth of tops, tires, gadgets. Five years later he opened a branch of his thriving Western Auto Supply Co. in Denver. When rich Mr. Pepperdine sold his controlling interest and retired to California, he became so twitchy that he started a new Western Auto Supply Co. on the Pacific Coast...
...thin, still face and hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust...
...also tells him that .she loves him. They are married, start facing life together. Clive learns Braille and type writing, fits himself to become her secretary. Rosamund, fired by his courage, buys a car, takes a house in London, shows herself in the world. In spite of the disparity in their ages, Clive's blind ness and Rosamund's birthmark, their marriage is a success. Author Deeping tactfully leaves them with the arrival of their first baby...