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...With particular suspicion do they view Morgan, banker of Great Britain during the War, who has his London house in Grosvenor Square and his English country seat, Wall Hall, at Watford. What is more natural, they think, than . . . that the Morgan group, with its vast investments in British shipping held in vassalage to the British Government, should favor American naval surrender, perpetuating British mastery of the seas...
Married. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, twice-divorced second Duke of Westminster, most spectacular of England's richest peers; and Loelia Ponsonby, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, keeper of the Privy Purse; in London. To his bride the Duke gave the famed Porter-Rhodes diamond, to his tenants, remission of arrears, one week's rent...
Products. Among famed U. S. children who have been educated under the Montessori methods are the grandchildren of Alexander Graham Bell: Lilian Waters, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elsie Alexandra Carolyn, children of Editor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor; Alexander Graham Bell, Barbara, and Nancy Bell, children of Botanist David Grandison Fairchild. In the Hollywood school, chubby Douglas Fairbanks Jr. learned to button shoes, fit blocks, scrape the second fiddle. The Dottoressa never married but her adopted son Mario is a finished product of the system. He is now 31 years old, married to Helen Christie of Cleveland, who teaches at the Opera...
Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, has two claims to esthetic distinction: 1) Its capitol building, last work of the late great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, is surely a piece of the world's greatest modern architecture. 2) Its symphony orchestra exists unaided by great-hearted guarantors and, miraculously, without deficit. Last week the Lincoln players gave the first concert of their fourth season. Again Rudolph Seidl, onetime oboist in the Minneapolis Symphony, conducted his 40 colleagues, all of whom receive union wages. Again there will be given four Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by the junior division of the Lincoln Chamber...
...fifths and so practically controlling interest in Fokker Aircraft; 2) the other major owner of Fokker Aircraft is Western Air Express whose president Harris M. Hanshue (also Fokker's president) was in Manhattan last week arranging a 36-hour all-air transcontinental service with Graham Bethune Grosvenor, president of The Aviation Corp. The Aviation Corp., through its subsidiary Universal Aviation Corp. flies from Cleveland to Kansas City. Western Air Express flies from Kansas City to Los Angeles and thence to San Francisco. The project is to extend Universal passenger services eastward to Manhattan. The two systems would transfer passengers...