Word: heir
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...when the G.O.P. won control of Congress, the nominal heir apparent was James R. Mann of Illinois, the Republican floor leader. But Mann had been a supporter of the policies of despotic Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon, and he lost the speakership to Massachusetts' Frederick H. Gillett...
Died. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune, just 14 days after he married his sixth wife, 30-year-old Painter Alicja Darr Purdom; in his sleep; in Cooperstown...
...museum almost in spite of itself. Around 1910 an elderly collector named William Evans offered to leave 40 American paintings, including a Ralph Albert Blakelock and a Childe Hassam, to Montclair, provided that the town put up a suitable building. When the town hesitated, Mrs. Henry Lang, an heir to the Rand mining machinery millions, briskly decided to get things moving by putting up $50,000 herself. In 1914 the neoclassic building opened its doors...
...Dominican Republic's President Joaquin Balaguer and Ramfis Trujillo Jr., the old dictator's heir, claimed that the disorders were the work of Communist agitators, insisted that the democratization was proceeding as planned, and that there would be free elections next May. Said Balaguer: "These scratchings are the inevitable consequences of high political passions. I have faith that the democratization of Dominican institutions is being carried out firmly...
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT...