Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Princess Marie Louise d' Orleans, daughter of the Duc de Vendôme, niece of King Albert of Belgium; to Walter F. Kingsland Jr. of Manhattan & Paris...
Died. James A. Patten, 76, wheat king; of pneumonia; in Evanston...
...seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title of Corn King from J. Ogden Armour. Here "Old Hutch"-P. B. Hutchinson-ran the price of wheat from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then watched the market collapse to 60?. Present value of a Trade seat is $45,000. When the building opened it was $2,400. Even further back...
Like almost every presentable young club member in Manhattan, Anthony Biddle Jr., has been called the city's best dressed man. At the age of 18, he married Mary L., the 28-year-old daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke, the tobacco king.* Tongues wagged and darted, but the Biddies, in Palm Beach, Newport and Manhattan, for which they had deserted the native Biddle heath of Philadelphia, gave evidence of marital contentment. Tony Biddle played tennis, squash and swam, occasionally boxing at the Racquet Club to show that he was not afraid of being hurt, thus found many business enterprises...
...young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...