Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George Blumenthal, 83, international banker, philanthropist, and president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Manhattan. Born in Frankfort on Main, he was sent to this country by Speyer & Co., later became a partner in Lazard Freres. With J. P. Morgan the elder, he was one of five bankers whose $65,000,000 gold loans saved Grover Cleveland from giving up specie payments in 1896. He gave $1,000,000 to the Metropolitan Museum in 1928, close to $2,000,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital...
Before and just after World War I, Prince George of Serbia, elder brother of assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia, had the reputation of being the most violent member of a most violent race. He stuck out his tongue at diplomats, killed a servant with a kick, heaved bottles at the windows of Serbia's late great Premier Nikola Pashitch. In 1923 he was declared insane, has since lived in seclusion with his guards, his physician, a succession of girl friends for sparring partners...
Widdicombe did not go with him. First to recover, the elder seaman sailed last February from New York to see his father in Wales. His ship, the Siamese Prince, was torpedoed in the Atlantic. All aboard were presumably lost, including Seaman Widdicombe...
...Southeast's railroads, at suggestion of Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch, will even lend TVA Diesel locomotives if they prove a useful substitute for water power. Olds's estimate of how much of the shortage this scheme will meet: more than 500,000 kilowatts...
...simultaneous upsies and dazies of Italian Imperial fortunes were last week exemplified by two brothers. Just after the Duke of Spoleto was named King of Croatia with pomp and jubilation, his elder brother the Duke of Aosta yielded up the trappings of his authority as Viceroy of Ethiopia...