Word: emlen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Emlen Roosevelt and his brother Philip James, fifth in the direct line of Founder Jacobus, and another partner "will continue the business of managing investments and other property, including the collection of income and the reinvestment of principal, and of acting as custodians of securities." They will perpetuate the old firm's name...
...Gallienne of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre and strapping, hollow-eyed Ethel Barrymore. Invited to address the Assembly earlier in the week, Miss Le Gallienne failed to appear, was now making amends by speaking gratis. Several hundred Philadelphia socialite women, including Mrs. Upton Favorite, Mrs. Trenchard Emlen Newbold and Mrs. Arthur B. Waters, the Assembly's director, who had scolded her roundly and threatened to sue, appeared to hear her apologize. But Miss Le Gallienne had no apology to make. She rapped out: "I'm disappointed in all of you. You don't know how hard...
...public learned of this other Roosevelt in 1923 when he gave to the National Association of Audubon Societies a bird sanctuary to surround the grave of the late President. He was heard of again last week when Death found him peacefully asleep in his Manhattan home. He was William Emlen Roosevelt, 73, head of Roosevelt & Sons, Manhattan bankers...
Even had not the late President made it so difficult, William Emlen Roosevelt would never have striven for the prominence of his cousin. His philanthropies, many, were ever discreet. His financial aid, if such existed, to his cousin (who though well off was never as rich as he) was never given publicity. William Emlen Roosevelt was a Roosevelt of Roosevelt & Sons, founded in 1797. He was not, even in Death, a Roosevelt of the front page...
...sons, George Emlen, Philip J. and John Kean, survive him and, even as he succeeded his father to leadership of Roosevelt & Sons, so do George and Philip succeed him.* They, unlike him. how ever, have no cousin who is President...