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Raskob. Potent in the Smith background, financially, psychologically, is John Jacob Raskob, vice president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., "biggest U. S. business man." Mr. Raskob was one of Mrs. Smith's escort home from Houston. Last week Mr. Raskob's son, William F. Raskob II, was killed in a motor smash. Nominee Smith made straight for Centerville, Md., and attended the funeral at the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church. Beside Nominee Smith walked Mr. & Mrs. Pierre du Pont...
Donald G. Swenson, Cornell University graduate, sailing on the lie de France, planned an unusual itinerary. Two days in the ship's engine room, four days in the dining room and steward's pantry, several weeks in the Hotel Ritz at Paris, more weeks at other famed European hotels, will complete Student Swenson's postgraduate course in hotel management. In the autumn, Manhattan's Hotel Astor will benefit by his experience...
Count Van de Ponthose, close Brussels associate of M. le Captaine, cried: "When one is of the house of Loewenstein, one does not commit suicide!" A rival ogre of finance, M. Henry Drefus, chairman of British Celanese and a ruthless combatant with Ogre Loewenstein, commented at London in three words: "I am sorry...
Last week the Sovereign of Liechtenstein, Johann Marie François Placide, Prince de Liechtenstein, Duc de Trappau et de Jägerndorf, lord of vast estates in Austria and Czechoslovakia, and owner of the famed Art Gallery in Vienna which bears his name, decided that it was time for him to take a shrewd step in respect to the inheritance taxes of Austria and Czechoslovakia, for the Prince is now aged four score and eight...
...dead and his estate the prey of tax gatherers. Therefore the succession to the Throne of Liechtenstein was allotted, last week, to fall upon Prince Alfred Aloyse's 18-year-old grandson, Prince Franz Joseph Marie Aloyse Alfred Charles Jean Henri Michel Georges Ignace Benoit Gerard Majella de Liechtenstein. Thus only one, not two sets of inheritance taxes, will have to be paid before young Prince Franz ascends his minute Throne...