Word: clan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Episcopal clergyman, eldest of four brothers, all of whom bring their wives and children every summer they can to the old family home at Middletown, R. I. Middletowners will recognize the scenery in Dusk at The Grove, may think they can identify some members of the Rogers clan. Prize-winner Rogers graduated from Browrn, took his master's degree at the University of Chicago, drove an ambulance in France. In 1919 he married and went to teach at the University of Wisconsin. "After a year of correcting freshman themes," he says, "I sought refuge in the French department." After...
...member of the famed Campbell clan, Mr. Moore is descended from the Earl of Argyll who befriended Mary, Queen of Scots. Proud of his Scottish ancestry, he has never worn his clan tartan of navy, black, red and green. His interest in the Cowal Games of the U. S. is sporting rather than historical. After schooling at St. Paul's, Mr. Moore joined Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897. The next summer he hunted polar bear in Hudson Bay. After graduating from Yale in 1903, he spent a year touring and buying horses in Arabia...
...himself, least considered member of that Imperial family whose fine flower was Augustus, first Emperor of Rome. Born prematurely, and afflicted all his life with a limp, a stammer and a sense of humor. Claudius lived to thank his stars that he was not a conspicuous member of his clan. His grandmother Livia, Augustus' wife, was a woman of decided and dangerous character and her schemes for ruling the Empire made frequent use of murder. Claudius was not even allowed to marry whom he liked. The pretty girl he wanted was murdered on their betrothal day; thereafter...
...Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow and sister-in-law, accused of aiding the abduction, came to an indecisive end when a Federal jury reported "hopeless" disagreement after 28 hours. But there are other newsworthy members of the Boettcher clan and to Denver and Colorado the name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather of Charles 2nd and head of the family, is a founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company in the U. S. Born in 1852 in Thuringia, heart of the German beet sugar country, he peddled hardware...
...Boettcher told a newshawk that he expected to be elected chairman of American Beet this week. Outstanding among Denver's first financial families, the Boettchers are reported to be one of the three biggest owners of Great Western stock. Last week Denver brokers were predicting that the Boettcher clan would like nothing better than to merge all Midwest sugar companies under their control...