Word: covely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from her brother Charles, first president of the company, expressing the wish that when he died his wife should be made president. When Charles died in 1900, it was not his wife but Daughter Aroline's husband, William H. Gove, who was chosen. After 20 years, at Cove's death in 1920, the Pinkhams finally got the offices they wanted. But Mrs. Gove as treasurer and her two daughters as assistant treasurer and vice president continued to throw company counsels out of harmony. The final break came over the question of advertising. The Pinkhams wanted a newspaper campaign...
Left. By the late Emily C. Jordan Folger of Glen Cove, L. I.: an estate estimated at $2,000,000, the bulk of which was bequeathed to the great Folger Shakespeare Memorial in Washington, D. C., founded by her late husband, Standard Oilman Henry Clay Folger...
Died. Charles Millard Pratt, 80, onetime (1899-1911) executive and director of the original Standard Oil Co. of which his father was cofounder, onetime president of Brooklyn's Pratt Institute; after a ten-year illness; in Glen Cove...
widow of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fractured hip (TIME, Nov. 25); Daughter-in-Law Mrs. Grace Lockwood Roosevelt, of appendicitis; Granddaughter Sarah Alden Derby, of "rundown condition" following an appendix operation last spring; all on the same floor of a Glen Cove, L. I., hospital...
SILAS CROCKETT-Mary Ellen Chase- Macmillan ($2.50). Silas Crockett was 23, master of the clipper Southern Seas, when in 1830 he returned to the Maine village of Saturday Cove after a profitable voyage to Canton. He was returning to "the shining coast" to marry Solace Winship, high-spirited daughter of a local builder whose untaught good taste had created masterpieces of native architecture throughout Maine. Self-confident, aggressive, Silas was determined to take Solace with him on his next voyage, feared the opposition of her parents and of his own, was sure Solace would willingly accompany him. But when, after...