Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well could U. S. scissor-makers afford to adopt some such plan for increasing profits. Biggest U. S. makers include J. Wiss & Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...
...speaks French fluently undoubtedly weighed in favor of his being sent to France instead of staying home as Secretary of Commerce. Aged 60, he takes his job of a Harvard Overseer seriously. Even more seriously does he take the job of being patriarch to his clan of children and grandchildren, whom he keeps together in a Park Avenue apartment building which he built for the purpose. He is also patriarchal toward his 8,000 employes at Macy's, who call him "Mr. Jesse." Last week Mr. Jesse summoned them, asked them to write letters to their, legislators protesting...
Families of preachers are rarer in the U. S. than families of polo-players or bankers. But Rev. Ovid Americus Kinsolving (1823-94), descendant of British settlers in Tidewater, Va., set a record. He gave to the church four sons, four grandchildren, one great-grandson. Of the sons, two are dead. The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, longtime Bishop of Brazil and father of "Big Tui," was tall, handsome. It was customary for graduates of Virginia Seminary to hand their diplomas publicly to a girl, but for his there was such competition that he gave it to his mother...
...Romberg; George White, producer). During a hiatus between Scandals, Producer White has turned his attention to operetta. This one is handsome, melodious, appealing to ear & eye rather than funnybone. It is the sort of play in which, by 11 o'clock, most of the actors are impersonating their grandchildren, for it begins in 1881, ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early in Act I. But Producer White has another expensive baritone, Walter Woolf. ready to step...
...Minneapolis, Christ Nelson took six silver dollars, pasted a stamp on one side of each, an address on the other side, mailed them to his six grandchildren in Detroit and New York City. All were delivered...