Word: clan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma Spreckels Rosekrans and Dorothy C. Spreckels. The sisters are the only members of the Spreckels clan still interested in the family business...
...Dabney saga, Author Street, a onetime Baptist preacher and former newspaperman, wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read it to find...
Nothing of this character will happen under Mr. Conant. There will be no harassment of professors for engaging in open and legal meetings. There will be no apparatus of inquiry and "closer watch." The harm done by the effort necessary to discover even a single clan-destine Party Member would outweigh any possible benefit. To go beyond that by searching for "reasonable grounds" concerning "loyalty," would still more disrupt Harvard or any free university...
...eared, tobacco-chewing County Judge Willie Bob Howard set the stage for Metcalfe's brief career as a cop. The judge took drastic steps to enforce the law. The ancient Cawood clan, which dominated the county, was cool to his kind of law enforcement. Sheriff Jim Cawood couldn't seem to find many bootleggers, and most of those got off. County Attorney Bert Howard and Commonwealth Attorney Daniel Boone Smith were Cawood adherents. So was Circuit Judge Jim Forester: Judge Willie Bob's convictions were regularly reversed in Jim Forester's court...
...Rifles in the Indian Rebellion, then went into the Anglican ministry. After serving as curate of St. George's Church in New York, he settled down in the rectory in Middletown. He had married Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham (pronounced Good-rum), of the Gooderham & Worts distillers' clan; Gooderham money built a 16-room brick house on elmlined Broad Street in which the Achesons lived, and Mother was a social arbiter. But Father ran the family, and off & on, the spiritual life of Middletown...