Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johns Hopkins got no schooling after he was 12. He started his fortune by exchanging groceries and farm products for raw Maryland whiskey, selling the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." He increased it by shrewd business ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love was a first cousin, he never married. He became president of a bank, a leader in insurance, shipping and warehousing, the largest individual stockholder of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. But to the end of his life he never wore an overcoat, walked whenever he could save money by it, thought long before replacing a threadbare...
...instance, the Class possesses a Roosevelt who does not plan to enter politics in Theodore Roosevelt, 3rd. He will forsake the path trod by his grandfather, his father, and his fifth cousin, once removed, to become an ordinary business man. The scion of another family, significant in American history, David Rockefeller, also plans to enter business after a year or two of graduate study in economics...
...miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president, Homestake was for years a pillar of the Hearst fortune. "W. R.'s" block, now estimated at 14,000 of the original 42,000 Hearst shares, is worth about $7,000,000, yields an annual income...
Almost a family friend of 65-year-old Dr. Voronoff is King Carol. Pretty, vivacious Mme Voronoff the 21-year-old first cousin of Magda Lupescu...
Died. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, 56, fifth cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy since 1933; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. The fourth Roosevelt to serve in that position (predecessors were Theodore, Theodore Jr. and Franklin D.), he was a consistent advocate of a "Navy second to none." Died. Albert Cabell Ritchie, 59, four-time (1920-35) Governor of Maryland, pioneer advocate of Prohibition repeal; of a paralytic stroke; in Baltimore. In 1932, he lost the Presidential nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1934, he lost the Governorship to Harry Whinna Nice, whom...