Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Charles ("Back-to-Nature") Garland, founder of the April Farm love-colony cult; by Mary Wrenn Garland, at Barnstable, Mass. Mr. Garland, famed refuser of a $1,800,000 legacy, once wrote a letter to his wife: "You probably remember the limerick about the young lady named Perkins, who pickled her internal workings with gherkins. Many, if not all, of those involved in the law, pickle their consciences therein. The fair face of justice must be sought elsewhere...
Engaged. Virginia Dorothea Morris, eldest daughter of the Morris banking system* founder; to Lieutenant Earle H. Kincaid of Covington, Va. Engaged. Ruth Whiting, daughter of William F. Whiting, (famed manufacturer of letter paper) (When you thing of writing think of Whiting); to one Neil Chapin, brother of Alfred H. Chapin Jr., famed tennis player; at Holyoke, Mass...
General Motors earned $93,285,674, or $17.33 a share, in six months; could declare a 50% stock dividend and still maintain $7 dividends. William Crapo Durant, deposed G. M. founder, gleaned some $12,000,000 from recent toying with its stock. Its stock passed $200 a share. Thomas Cochran, Morgan partner, was almost incredibly reported to have broken his firm's silence by saying it "should and will" sell 100 points higher...
Engaged. Ludlow Griscom, grandson of a founder of the International Mercantile Marine Co.; to Edith Sloan, granddaughter of the late Samuel Sloan...
...literature? Only last week, in a noisy director's room in London, the scene was enacted exactly as Mr. Galsworthy planned it. Sir Thomas Lipton was the oaken figure at the foot of the table. The tea business, a shareholder hinted, had far outgrown the ability of its founder. It needed, perhaps, a younger man - Sir John Ferguson, director of finance. Another share holder pointed out that the company's overdraft at the bank was ?10,000 in March. He would like to know what it was today...