Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another millionaire made his mark in aviation last week. Paul Wadsworth Chapman, Manhattan investment banker, had watched the profitable aviation promotion of Elisha Walker (Blair Co.), Charles Hayden and Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...JAMES GORDON BENNETTS?Don C. Seitz?Bobbs-Merrill...
...Father. "Newspapers, as such, hardly deserved the name until this impertinent Scotchman came along. . . .' Before he founded the New York Herald in 1835 as a penny daily, newspapers were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen...
...illegitimate children, Patrick and Deirdre, were also killed in a motor car accident. Deirdre was the daughter of Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry's son; Patrick the son, supposedly, of Paris Singer of Singer Sewing Machines...
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...