Word: godchild
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patiňo, Bolivia's eightyish, enormously wealthy "Tin King," was sued in Manhattan for $500,000 by his godchild, French-born Suzanne Auclert Roth, 24. Her charge: Patiňo, worth an estimated $500 million, had promised her $1,000 a month for the rest of her life as "a social companion . . . always to be at his beck and call." But, she complained, he stopped beckoning-and the payments...
...mannered Henry H. Reichhold (TIME, Dec. 18), underwriter of the Detroit Symphony's resurgence. A rich, German born manufacturer (Reichhold Chemicals Inc.) who has fiddled as a hobby, Angel Reichhold, 43, could now sit with more than usual pride in his usual box, congratulating himself that his solvent godchild was also a Manhattan-approved artistic success...
Queen Mary was photographed dandling her seventh and newest grandchild and godchild, Prince William Henry Andrew Frederick, three-month-old son of the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. The princeling was christened fortnight ago by the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury...
...tower-the bitterest name-calling, insult-shouting, fist-shaking free-for-all that has taken place since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. The row started when the Prime Minister declined to answer questions on a secret fifth-column investigating committee headed by onetime Air Secretary Viscount Swinton, political godchild of Stanley Baldwin, who had been denounced by Laborites as a consistent Tory bungler. Doubting Viscount Swinton's competence and fearing that he might use his Committee against liberal elements in Britain, Laborites had insisted on placing questions concerning its activities on the Order Paper...
...York, New Haven & Hartford (in the courts since 1935) will see its common and preferred stockholders wiped out entirely if ICC's plan goes through. Biggest common stockholders: Pennsylvania Railroad and its godchild Pennroad Corp. Curtailed by lCC's plan was P.R.R.'s long-mooted influence over New England traffic. Cut to $365,000,000 was New Haven's $464,833,806 capital structure, its fixed charges from...