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...last years of his career, Promoter Rickard had surrounded himself with a powerful corporation, mainly to insure financial security. It seemed likely that whoever was elected president of this, would inherit the responsibilities, if not necessarily the talents, of Tex Richard. A much discussed candidate was Vice President William F. Carey, Wall Street contracting engineer, builder of the new Manhattan and Boston Madison Square Gardens, onetime Rickard Partner in Paraguayan cattle-ranchholdings. Jack Dempsey refused to consider it officially; before any announcement had been made by the Garden Corporation, William F. Carey entrained with Prizefighter Dempsey for Boston and persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rickard's Heirs | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Early in 1920 Beatrice Gladys Lillie wed Sir Robert and three days before Christmas gave birth to Robert, still her only child. His destiny is to head the Peel line and inherit 10,000 acres. Shortly his irrepressible mother will open in Manhattan as the star of Noel Coward's This Year of Grace, London's superhit revue of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Money & Peels | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...years younger than the Youngest Senator.) He wanted to go on with his teaching and his law practice. It was for that, and not to be "available" for greater things, that he relinquished the district attorneyship of Dane County, which he helped a young assistant in his office to inherit at the last election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In LaFollette-Land | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...externally the 1300 cadets are one perfectly drilled and orgainzed body; their individuality is merged into the strong and envied West Point type; and they inherit the long scroll of the Corps's distinguished record

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Prints Condensed History of "The Gray Towers on the Hudson"---Rank Created in 1794 | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

Expected. By the abdicated Maharaja of Indore, and his spouse Nancy Anne (nee Miller) of Seattle, a babe. Should it prove male, the he-babe would inherit many a million of golden rupees, but not the Throne of Indore, which is now held by an elder son of the abdicated Potentate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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