Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal family came news that Lord Frederick Charles Edward Cambridge, cousin of King George VI and favorite nephew of Queen Mary, had also died in the Battle of Flanders as a captain in the elite Coldstream Guards, leaving his elder brother, the Marquess of Cambridge, without a male heir...
Vigorous, young (45), excellent golfer (70s) and able dice shaker, Knight has worked as heir or owner in nearly every part of the Beacon-Journal plant. Since he dislikes chain journalism's uniformity, Publisher Knight tries to give each of his papers a personality of its own, favors much local news. His Miami paper is Democratic, his Akron paper Independent. During Akron's big strike in 1936, he splashed a strongly worded Page One editorial at a vigilante group which wanted to smash the picket line and open the plant, rode out the protests, saw the strike settled...
Informed that he had inherited the threadbare baronetcy of his uncle, the late Sir John Henry Lee Fagge, who was a handyman in Pepperell, Mass, till he fell heir to his title, Sir Fred Fagge, of Faversham, Kent, England, downed three beers instead of his customary two, wiped his mouth, announced his plans: to remain a farmhand...
...garment factory was a dismal flop, found no market for its coats and suits. Government loans of $200,000 fell due, and the Department of Agriculture, which had fallen heir to R. A.'s white elephant, finally foreclosed, sold some of the plant machinery for $1,811. Jersey Homesteaders who could find jobs commuted to Manhattan or Philadelphia, still counted themselves lucky to be living in the country at monthly rent...
Married. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith Plumley, 29, first wife of Zachary Smith Reynolds (his second: Torch Singer Libby Holman), tobacco heir found shot to death in 1932; and Albert C. Wharton Jr.; she for the fourth time; in Bunnell...