Word: jr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...October 20, 1938 issue of Ken one Edward Hunter had practically the same idea. Winchell guessed it, of course. He, too, reads newspapers. And Bad Boy Columnists Pearson & Allen knew some of the details a month before the deal. Among the amateurs, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wrote in a letter dated June 7: "I still believe that eventually Russia and Germany will get together...
...John and Robert. Eldest Son Jim quarreled with his father and was packed off with a string of small papers, most of them in the northwest, which became the Scripps League. The Scripps League is now run by his two sons, strapping Edward Wyllis Scripps and lanky James G. Jr. The Scripps boys take themselves seriously, used to write a weekly bulletin called PEP for their staffs, have paid such low wages that once when a publisher begged a raise for a $28-a-week business manager, Jim Scripps wrote back: "Do not think it advisable at this time...
Married. Leverett Saltonstall Jr., 22 Harvard graduate, eldest of Massachusetts Governor Leverett Saltonstall's five children (three boys, two girls); and Nancy Smith, 21, Groton, Mass, socialite; in Groton...
...luxe suite on Holland-America liner Nieuw Amsterdam, on the homeward passage shared three deck mattresses. To get ailing Steelmaster Charles M. Schwab, his nurse, valet and physician accommodations, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy had to intervene. Others who squeezed in just under the sellout: Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Financier John Pierpont Morgan; a man who described himself as "only a postage-stamp merchant," named James A. Farley, carrying an album of rare stamps given him by French Minister of Posts and Telegraphs Jules Julien...
Last year, Delaware's Court of Chancery finally decided that Pepsi-Cola belonged to Loft, not to Mr. Guth. Then Phoenix' president, 43-year-old Walter S. Mack Jr., a director of Loft, became president of Pepsi-Cola Co. When he looked into the books which Mr. Guth had previously kept well hidden, he found a thriving business. For the first nine months of 1938 Pepsi-Cola had turned in a net profit of $2,700,000; its stock was selling at $70 a share (it is now $190). (For the same period Loft lost...