Word: childlessness
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...marry Editor Bok. and in turn to bear him two sons. Curtis & Gary. Less than six months after his first wife died in 1910, Publisher Curtis married his second cousin, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury, widow of a Milwaukee lumberman. She died a year ago. This second marriage was childless, but "Cousin Kate" already had three daughters, one of whom married John Charles Martin...
Whereas Mrs. McLean wanted to buy the Post for herself and her sons, Mrs. Abbott, childless, asked a receivership for the Defender. (Presumably, however, she hoped to get it for herself.) Whereas the Post admittedly has been losing money for years the Defender has picked up after its Depression slump and, according to its owner, is making a little money. According to the owner's wife it is worth $1,000,000. (Eugene Meyer got the Post last fortnight for only $825,000.) Fun-loving "Ned" McLean could not be bothered with business. Round-faced Publisher Abbott was kept...
...Childless, Brewmaster Krug (not Kruch) had adopted his nephew August Uihlein. After Brewer Schlitz's death. August Uihlein-Krug and his brothers took over the Schlitz plant. Mrs. Fred Pabst, whose husband helps direct Pabst-Premier. is the late Brewer Uihlein-Krug's eldest daughter...
...graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets...
...rambling frame house on a -acre farm near Carrollton. He has pure-bred Holstein-Friesians and fine Hampshire hogs. Over his place roams a herd of sacred Japanese deer, bred from a buck and two does originally obtained from the Washington zoo in exchange for one porcupine. Childless, he has built a wading pool for neighborhood children, gives them the run of his grounds for picnics and play. His milk and corn are trucked to St. Louis. He says: "I think I have one of the best farms in Illinois but I'm having difficulty making enough money...