Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fisheries Co., owner of the Chicago Journal of Commerce; by his own hand (shooting); in Chicago. Called "Snake" for his twisting style of running, he was one of Princeton's great football traditions, fullback on the late Walter Camp's first All-American team (1889). He was a second cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates ("Hell & Maria") Dawes. Recently he had been in bad health, had worried over finances. Last summer Gurnett & Co., Boston brokers, sued him for $324,561 plus interest...
...grace?increased the dividend from $5 to $6.* Immediate beneficiary is the Hershey Industrial School, where 350 boys and young men learn useful trades. The school has 500.000 of the company's 706,520 common shares held in trust for it. On the directorate which voted the raise were Cousin Ezra F. Hershey and John E. Snyder, onetime postman. When in 1886 Founder Hershey began making caramels in a little alley, Postman Snyder at first had difficulty in finding him. Later, however, he often dropped in to nibble and advise, becoming Mr. Hershey's vice president...
Heaven's Cousin. In Tokyo the Son of Heaven, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito, was advised by Prince Saionji, the Last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen," to bring the Army under stricter Imperial control last week and did so, appointing as Chief of Staff his right royal cousin, fierce-mustached Field Marshal Prince Kotohito Kanin...
...admittance on the grounds that the ukulele is not a musical instrument. The Federation, it seemed, had never even been asked to recognize it before. Yet the ukulele does not have to be played in a hit-or-miss fashion just because it is smaller and cheaper than its cousin, the union-approved guitar. Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics, can be played...
Died. Patrick Francis Murphy, 72, president of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), father-in-law of Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey (British journalist, cousin to Author Lytton Strachey) ; famed after-dinner speaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Tall, elegantly dressed, Speaker Murphy was featured at dinners of The Lambs and Manhattan Clubs, at July 4 meetings of U. S. residents in Paris and London. Some Murphyisms...