Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reviewing the case of one Joel D. Kerper, "society bootlegger," whose headquarters were raided on July 20. The examination of 'Legger Kerper's records disclosed the names of many famed Philadelphians, presumably bigwigs who had dickered with him. Among these were: D. B. Cummins Catherwood, banker; Gardner Cassat, banker & broker; Roland R. Foulke, attorney & active churchman; Maxwell R. Marston, onetime (1923) national amateur golf champion; Major Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, author, lecturer, explorer, founder of the "Athletic Christianity" movement. Subpoenas were scattered far and wide...
Died. Sir James Agg-Gardner, 82, oldest member of the British House of Commons, last of Disraeli's M. P. contemporaries, famed for his 54 years of silence in the House (broken by only two speeches) ; of heart disease; in London. As head of the House catering department, he supervised daily "tea on the terrace," was affably known as "Minister of the Interior...
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Married. Evalyn Dun Douglass, granddaughter of Robert Dun Douglass, chairman of the board of trustees of R. G. Dun & Co., Manhattan credit raters and statisticians; to Edward Gardner Prime of Yonkers, N. Y., in Manhattan...
Three little Fleischmanns (Gardner, 10; Stephen, 8; Peter, 6), sons of Raoul H. Fleischmann, publisher of the New Yorker, sailed on the Paris in quarters much too large for them. One day later, Captain Otto Schwamberger, master of the Hamburg, sailed on his ship in quarters much too small for him. Reason: Mr. and Mrs. Fleischmann missed the Paris, watched three little Fleischmanns with governess, family trunks, sail without them. A feverish search for reservations on following boats was unavailing. Obligingly, Capt. Schwamberger gave up his suite to pursuing parents...