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When debonair, mustachioed Elisha Huson Waterman last week became kingpen of L. E. Waterman Co., the 2,000 astonished employes of this famed old fountain-pen concern could well imagine his father, Frank Dan Waterman, turning furiously in his grave. Thirteen years ago, crusty, conservative President Frank Dan kicked Elisha out of his $6,500 job in the company and banished him from the family. Last month, when bitter old Frank Dan died, he left Elisha a mere $100. Scarcely was the Waterman ink dry on the will when Elisha quietly played the trump card he had held...
...James Russell Lowell, James Thomas Fields, William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Horace Elisha Scudder, Walter Hines Page, Bliss Perry...
Murder and kidnapping among a group of wealthy people marooned on a lonely island off Cape Cod, solved by likable local sleuth. Elisha Macomber. Plot: deft; atmosphere: good...
After a brief consultation with Conover-Mast's high-powered lawyer, Elisha Hanson, who as counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers' Association is the most vociferous warrior for the Free Press against the New Deal, Editor Barclay announced that he would ignore the subpoena...
Adoption Announced, By Mrs. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, granddaughter of the late John D. Rockefeller, oilman, daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick, farm machinery manufacturer, widow of the late Major Elisha D. Hubbard, gentleman farmer; of a girl, 4, who will presumably one day share the double-barreled fortune of her foster forebears...