Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Depression, he shot himself. Knowlton Jr. built up the Journal of Commerce for his father, who then turned it over to Son John. Junior Ames bought the Chicago Post, joined Col. "Frank" Knox on the Chicago Daily News, is now Governor Horner's State Finance Director. An Ames cousin is Charles Gates Dawes. Rosemary Ames's first husband was Samuel Insull's private secretary, E. Ogden Ketting. Her second is Bertie Alexander Meyer, London producer. Perhaps he will help her get less wooden direction, help her forget she is Acting...
Another of the President's fishing friends was a distant cousin. Kermit Roosevelt, son of T. R., friend and partner of Vincent Astor in the shipping business. The rest were, with two exceptions, socialites: William Rhinelander Stewart, Mr. Astor's best friend; Lyle Hull who last spring was Mr. Stewart's bicycling companion in Bermuda; George St. George, young, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, English-bred member of Tuxedo's horsy set. Mrs. George St. George was the onetime Katharine Price Collier, stepsister of the President's cousin Warren Delano Robbins, U. S. Minister to Canada...
...what was once a surfeit of young Swedish princes, only three remained in good standing last week: the Crown Prince's eldest, Gustaf Adolf, who is safely and royally married but childless; his unmarried youngest, Carl Johan; and unmarried first cousin Carl. Royalty's joke of the week was that the Bernadottes were playing "Going to Jerusalem" for the throne...
...nostalgic tribute to a land that has seen its best days, it has fluency and charm, tells its low-keyed story with sentimental conviction. Walter Hoxsie's farm on the Rhode Island shore had been in his family for generations. He liked his life there, especially when his cousin Sarah came to live with him after his mother died, and never considered living anywhere else. But Hoxsie was poor, and the land yielded less & less every year. When a Providence real estate company made him a good offer for his land Hoxsie thought he might as well take...
...bank at all. The president, directors and company of the Bank of New York were organized with $500.000 capital. Among the directors were Nicholas Low, Comfort Sands and a doughty old sugar refiner named Isaac Roosevelt who later became the bank's president and whose first cousin four times removed was to become 25th President of the U. S. and whose great-great-grandson was to become 32nd President of the U. S. The directors picked for their first president, General Alexander Macdougall, a brisk, decisive Scotch merchant who earlier in his life had piled up a small fortune...