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Back at his Manhattan law office, after a vacation in Pinehurst, N. C., was George Washington, Yaleman, onetime (1929-31) Rhodes scholar, great great great great grandnephew of the first President...
Backers of the Terminal's search were Minor Cooper Keith, grandnephew, heir and namesake of the man who founded United Fruit Co., and a salvage company whose president, Thomas P. Connolly, had invented a new kind of diving-suit. Weighing 675 Ib. on deck, the suit has a head and body of steel, with grotesque protuberances for eyes and something that looks like a nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck...
...California gold rush was a godsend to him, and until the Union Pacific was completed in 1869. Aspinwall had the coast-to-coast carrying service in his fist. In 1934 Great-Uncle William might have had some difficulty reconciling his profitable business to the Social Democratic ideas of Grandnephew Franklin...
...church will retain the building to which Henry Ward Beecher brought fame, dispose of the other. The name of the great preacher appeared patly in headlines. This week a full-sized portrait of him, his father and nine of his brothers and sisters is to be published by his grandnephew, Publicist Lyman Beecher Stowe. Called Saints, Sinners and Beechers* it expounds the fact that when the Beechers entered the Church they found it grimly Calvinistic and weighty with theology; by the time they left it they had shifted its emphasis to the service of this world. Says Author Stowe...
Laurance Hearne Armour, grandnephew of Philip Danforth Armour who founded Armour & Co., was elected president of Chicago's American National Bank & Trust Co., successor to Straus National Bank which was taken over and renamed last year by a group of Chicago businessmen. President Armour, grandson of Banker Andrew Watson Armour who settled in Kansas City, is a director of Armour...