Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James W. Corrigan, 47, genuinely liked for his openhandedness, his exuberance, his loyalty to friends and his able management of the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co., went two weeks ago to a game of bowls at the Cleveland Athletic Club. At the club building he grasped a bronze door handle, staggered, dropped to one knee, pulled himself upright. Half inside the door he collapsed. The heavy door slammed upon him-dead of heart failure...
...quickly assumed that his wife, who had battled her way to the top of London society, would now top the tenth largest steel company in the U. S. Would Cleveland furnaces roar to dine London Dukes? Would laboring thousands depend for jobs upon a distant lady's whim? Truth might again be stranger than the cinema, especially in a company with such a cinematic history...
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...
...Cleveland society treated them frigidly and they went to London to live. There they and their wealth were welcomed. The Prince of Wales and crowds of lesser no bility attended Mrs. Corrigan's parties...
...group,* but not yet is it to be guided by a woman. "Young Jim," who had bucked and reared under a trusteeship, had fashioned a trust bridle for his widow. She may sell her steel shares; she cannot vote them. That power lies with the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland and John H. Watson Jr., elected last week president of the corporation...