Word: kins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third Democratic winner of note last week in Oklahoma was Representative-at-large Will Rogers, no kin to his late great namesake, who beat Sam Houston III, grandson of Texas' No. 1 hero...
Last week, on the 75th anniversary of the battle which the South calls First Manassas and the North calls First Bull Run, a Stonewall Jackson again rode the field at Manassas. He was lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...
...manufacture Ingersoll watches. Instead, it is a competitor. Your advertising department well knows that Ingersolls are the property of Ingersoll-Waterbury Co. From shortly before the turn of the century until the early 20's the Ingersoll name was owned by Robert H. Ingersoll and brother. Robert Ingersoll, kin of but not the atheist, introduced the first clock watch, the Ingersoll "that made the dollar famous." The watches were manufactured for the Ingersoll brothers by Waterbury Clock Co. During the post-War depression the Ingersolls became over-extended on short-term loans, their partnership went through bankruptcy...
During her life Mrs. Nieman greatly admired her nephew and closest of kin, an obscure broadway actor named Cyril Gordon Weld, for whom she intended a large legacy. Weld died in New York in January, with Mrs. Nieman at his bedside. Saddened, Mrs. Nieman returned to Milwaukee and there made the instrument which was last week contested by Fred and Bob Wahl and Mrs. Paula Wahl Pierce, half-brothers and half-sister of Mrs. Nieman's father, the late Christian Wahl...
...protesting Xieman kin also upset the plan of the Journal's ruddy Publisher Harry Johnston ("The Chief"') Grant to take over, along with Mr. Nieman's niece Fay McBeath and any Journal employes who could afford to buy in the 1,100 shares of Journal stock which Mr. Nieman left in trust. The Xieman trust represents 55% of the paper's controlling interest. Of the remaining 900 shares, Mr. Grant already owns 400, while 500 are held by Mrs. Susan Boyd of Wilmington, Del., widow of a onetime Journal business manager. The Grant plan would create...