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...Known as "the bachelor statesman" for years, Yukio Ozaki in 1915 married the daughter of the British wife of a Baron Ozaki (no kin) whose mail was always delivered to his address...
...Such losses for tax purposes were legal but in the hue & cry last week retiring U. S. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell (no kin) promptly launched a probe into this and other Mitchellisms...
...late, famously educated Henry Adams (1838-1918). Presidents of the U. S. were his great-grandfather and his grandfather; his father was Minister to the Court of St. James's; what was there left for him? This brief (246-page) but comprehensive biography by James Truslow Adams (no kin) was originally intended as an introduction to Henry Adams' as-yet-unpublished Works. The Depression brought it out as a single volume, the first life of Henry Adams to be written...
...Mayor, popular Hidejiro Nagata, who with flying coattails has opened many a baseball game at Tokyo's Stadium in the Meiji Grounds, and who is a national figure, renowned for sturdy patriotism, sage wit. Though no slightest suspicion pointed at either Mr. Nagata or at any of his kin, he promptly scapegoated, announced his resignation as Mayor of Tokyo with this terse explanation, "I desire to embrace full responsibility...
...broad Hudson River between Albany and Manhattan big white steamers plough by day and plough by night. Just a year ago Hudson River Night Line, famed as all night lines are in many a locker room tale, ploughed right into receivership. Last week Hudson River Day Line (no corporate kin) ploughed into receivership, too. As receiver, courts appointed Alfred Van Santvoord Olcott, the Line's president. Great-grandson of Commodore Abraham Van Santvoord whose "safety barges" were the talk of the river 125 years ago, Receiver Olcott said the company had been unable to obtain the usual bank loan...