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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Councilor of the Embassy under Viscount Grey of Fallodon and Sir Auckland Geddes. A more personal tie to the U. S. is the fact that Ambassador Ronald has married two daughters of U. S. citizens. His first wife was Martha Cameron, daughter of onetime Senator J. Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania. The present Lady Lindsay was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, daughter of the late famed stockbroking Colgate Hoyt of Manhattan, and grandniece of General William Tecumseh ("Scourge of Georgia") Sherman...
...Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of the late great Meatpacker Jonathan Ogden Armour, and her daughter, Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr., closed the affairs of the Armour estate in Chicago. The estate being insolvent for $2,000,000, Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Mitchell relinquished claims to loans for that amount. When he died (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the Chicago Journal of Commerce said of Meatpacker Armour: "He probably had the distinction of having lost more money than any man that ever lived...
Suicides, long rumored, became facts, indicated some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl...
...decide the championship and he got what he wanted with the rook and pawn ending. He had won 11 games, lost 5, drawn 9. Immediately Señor José Capablanca* mailed Dr. Alekhine a challenge for a match to be played in Manhattan or in Bradley Beach, N. J...
...Chicago, thieves entered the home of J. G. Haber, sausage manufacturer. They found Mr. Haber snoozing by the radio, Mrs. Flossy Haber singing in the bathtub. Opening the bathroom door, they tossed Mrs. Haber a wrap, made her get them her jewel box, contents valued...