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Married. Dark, beauteous Mary B. Gushing, 34, daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Harvey Gushing, elder sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt; and her longtime friend, Manhattan Real-Estate Tycoon William Vincent Astor, 48, inheritor of $65,000,000 from his father, John Jacob Astor; she for the first time, he for the second; quietly, in Easthampton, L. I. Divorced three weeks ago in Cody, Wyo. by first-wife Helen Dinsmore Huntington, 46, Groom Astor and bride last week sailed for a honeymoon aboard his $1,000,000 Nourmahal, on which he often entertained his Dutchess County neighbor...
...Republicans' pottage. Happy and united were the Republicans. The man they had picked to take Joe Guffey's Senate seat was Jay Cooke IV, who, like Penrose, is what is known as a scion, also comes from Philadelphia's famed 8th Ward, and is the wealthy inheritor of not only a 1776 name but 1776 courage, proved in the Meuse-Argonne offensive...
Last week TNEC heard why improving technology makes jobs from the No. 1 inheritor of that art: lean, hawk-faced Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Co., Henry's only son. It was two days after the 28,000,000th Ford had run off the assembly line in Edgewater, N. J. that he sat down before TNEC's microphone...
...Governor Richard W. Leche, indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in an illegal $148,000 sale of State-owned oil lands, for which he allegedly received a $67,000 cut. Beefy Mr. Leche, always known to the late Huey Long as "Jughead," and a one-third inheritor of Huey's empire, had suddenly resigned his Governorship in June after 37 months' rule, saying: "I shall probably fool around some in the oil business." Indicted with him was Seymour Weiss, who polished Huey's manners, also inherited one-third. No. 3 inheritor was Mayor Robert...
...Francis E. Townsend heard him lecture, by invitation, at their meetings. Mr. Downey liked the Doctor's monthly-spending provision-to speed trade velocity. When EPIC crashed, Sheridan Downey became attorney for the Doctor and his Plan. The Doctor's subsequent flirtations with Father Coughlin, Gerald Smith (inheritor of Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" movement) and Representative William Lemke cooled Attorney Downey. He and the Doctor drifted apart...