Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrick Cudahy was a Kilkenny Irishman who arrived in the U. S. at the age of six, got rich in the meat-packing business. His son and heir was John Clarence Cudahy, a ruddy chip off the old block, who supported Roosevelt before 1932 and by natural selection became a U. S. diplomat. Tall, leathery Mr. Cudahy had previously studied and practiced law, run his family's real-estate properties in Milwaukee, hunted big game, fought gallantly in World War I, written expansive prose about his adventures. Blessed with charm, a warm heart and full pockets, Mr. Cudahy...
Married. Sonja Henie, 30, chubby, figure-skating cinemactress, ice-revue star; and Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping, 29, tin-plate heir, principal stockholder of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team; she for the first time, he for the third; in Chicago. Choked Sonja: "I have never been so happy...
...displaying "great dash and gallantry" and bagging eight enemy planes, R. A. F. Squadron Leader the Hon. Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 30, son & heir of Napoleonic little British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook, now Minister for Aircraft Production, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross...
Neumann portrays this heir and his I-saying friends with both sadness and mockery...
...Heir apparent is blond young Henry Melvale, nephew of Samuel, Lord Melvale, banking power in the City of London...