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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked, voicing the kind of ideas with which Queen Victoria's great-great-grandchildren will grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. Villard | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...referred to his eleven grandchildren, for whom he has chucklesomely made room at Murray Bay. "The house now straggles all over the place," said Grandfather Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Taft | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...These are the only Hoover grandchildren. Allan Hoover, 21, Stanford University Senior, is unmarried. He attended the convention as a page. Herbert Clark Hoover Jr., 24, is an instructor in economics at the Business School of Harvard University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...when Zachary Taylor became president, Joseph Home began a store which as Joseph Home & Co. was to be Pittsburgh's oldest department store. Shortly he took on as partners C. B. Shea and A. P. Burchfield. Their business grew. Their children went into the business. Burchfields married Homes. Grandchildren of the first partners received their schooling and joined their parents in the Joseph Home Co. Joseph B. Shea, son of Joseph Home's partner, C. B. Shea, is now president of the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Publicized Business | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

They are cousins, grandchildren of famed Joseph Medill who put the Tribune on the path to lustiness. They made sandpies together as children. They went to Yale. But before young Patterson was graduated, he rushed off to China in 1900 as war correspondent. Two years later, he was married and became a reporter on the Tribune. As he rose from one desk to another, he wrote four trivial novels, the most successful of which was A Little Brother of the Rich, and one good play, The Fourth Estate. He said he was writing to please himself. When the War started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: At the Waldorf | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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