Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I read with unusual interest your account of a CBS program, Court of Missing Heirs. True to the tradition of this program for turning up lost heirs, records, etc., I now find myself turned up, not an heir, lost or otherwise, but a creditor, which will be quite a surprise to Mr. Shebel. If Mr. Alfred E. Shebel, part owner of the Court of Missing Heirs, is the same man (and I believe he is) who had offices at 612 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, he will recall that he owes me $10. About five years...
...Missing Heir...
...Heir to Merrill Lynch's brokerage business was E. A. Pierce & Co., whose handsomely pompadoured, soft-spoken Edward Allen Pierce prides himself on operating the largest U. S. security & commodity brokerage chain: 40 offices in 38 cities, linked by 17,000 miles of private wires. To the rest of Wall Street, during the dead markets of recent years, Broker Pierce has been the No. 1 example of conspicuous luxury, operating on a nationwide overhead geared to forgotten two-and-three-million-share days. Ever since Depression II, Street sages have guessed at Pierce's losses, wondered when...
...Sarawak, a rich tropical land of rubber, oil, antimony, edible birds' nests and rhinoceroses, it has long been recognized that a two-fisted male ruler was needed to make the kingdom's famed headhunters toe the mark. Heir Presumptive to the Sarawak throne was Sir Charles's brother, Bertram. But Bertram is now 63, too old to assume new burdens. So Anthony Brooke, Bertram's 27-year-old son, was named Raja Muda (Crown Prince...
Last week Raja Sir Charles issued a decree from his palace in Kuching, Sarawak's capital, blackballed Anthony Brooke as his heir with this terse announcement: "It appears to us that our nephew is not yet fitted for the exercise of the responsibilities of this high office...