Word: heir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no lack of lifted voices and sounding trumpets on this heroic dispute. The gallant heir of the traditions of the Lone Star State, Senator Tom Connally, plumping for Foreign Relations, denied vehemently and at length that his choice was motivated by pride, of which nobody accused him, made it clear at the conclusion of his talk that nobody could accuse him of wanting to aid Finland either. Senator George of Georgia talked just as long in the same cause, proclaiming his inability to tell the difference between sending money to Finland and sending a battleship. Vainly Administration Leader...
Last week, as both men celebrated their birthdays, Field Marshal Göring, heir-designate of the Führer, was publicly congratulated by Army, Government and Nazi Party officials. The Führer honored him with a personal call at Karin Hall, the sumptuous manor house which the Field Marshal built on Berlin's outskirts...
...Grace Rardin Eames Doherty, Oilman Henry L. Doherty left his entire fortune, "substantially in excess of $1,000,000" (1929 estimate: $100,000,000). To 21-year-old Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge, onetime telephone operator, daughter of a Canadian tugboat captain and widow of Automobile Heir Daniel Dodge, who drowned on their honeymoon, a Detroit probate court judge awarded $1,250,000. Two of the dead man's sisters, horsy Isabel Dodge Sloane and Winifred Dodge Seyburn (who inherited nothing), let it be known they would not let Annie get away with...
Lynde, small-salaried reporter on an Illinois weekly. Mr. Lynde falls heir to his uncle's estate - a country house, a daily newspaper and $25,000 in cash - in an un named European dictatorship. To enjoy this wealth, Mr. Lynde must return to his fatherland. Elated at the thought of publishing a paper of his own, Mr. Lynde is reminded that in his fatherland there is no freedom of the press, eventually decides to stay, poor but free...
...Secretary Avel Yenukidze. Ordjonkidze died "of a heart attack," Yenukidze before a firing squad. Defense Commissar Voroshilov has enjoyed the master's friendship and lived longer than anybody. Best pal of late years is said to be Leningrad Party Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, regarded as Stalin's heir. Last week rumors flew thick & fast that Comrade Zhdanov was on the skids. His birthday testimonial to Stalin failed to see the light of print...