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...think Houdini could have done anything more phenomenal than the Van Sweringens did," scoffed Senator Wheeler. "They regained control of their vast empire without putting up a five-cent piece." Mr. Ball, unexpected inheritor of the Van Sweringen empire, had to confess time & again that he did not even know what kind of business many of the 286 Van Sweringen corporations were engaged in. He had put its management in the hands of Herbert Fitzpatrick, Van Sweringen attorney...
...bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens to write Bleak House, the 52-year-old Earl, whose stable of racing cars is Europe's most elaborate, failed to make a properly...
...copy of any Editorial that the CRIMSON may publish on the subject. Secondly: Is there not at least one student in Harvard who will resent this act sufficiently to destroy the picture even with the certainly that he will be called a vandal? I am the inheritor of one of the so-called "Liberty Cups," given as a badge of honor to the Members of the Boston Tea Party who destroyed the British tea in Boston Harbor. The British denounced that incident as an act of vandalism. Scuttling the American concept of Government by exalting an American Bolshevik is vandalism...
Noble Sissle, with Irene Castle's help, has become Jim Europe's inheritor. He, more than anyone else, was responsible for 0, Sing a New Song...
Half century ago Holabird & Roche and Burnham & Root were Chicago's two top-flight architectural firms. Today's Holabird & Root is the inheritor of the talents of the older generation. Best known architectural-partnership (formed in 1928) west of the Allegheny Mountains, its main Chicago rival is Graham, Anderson, Probst & White whose new Field Building shows a vertical treatment typical of Holabird & Root...