Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen years ago, when William Bramwell Booth succeeded his father, the late General William Booth, as commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, the younger Booth was presumed to have chosen his own successor in traditional Salvation Army fashion. The present incumbent, according to tradition, names his favorite brother or sister "in arms," writing his choice on a slip of paper, which he files with his solicitors, which is not opened until Death necessitates a substitution. But William Bramwell Booth's aides-de-camp would have done with the Booth dynasty. Although William Bramwell Booth has two sons, Generals...
Married. Edwin Crane Wilbur, play-wright-actor, who co-starred with once-famed Cinemactress Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline; and Beatrice Edna Blinn, actress-niece of Actor Holbrook Blinn; in London. Actress Blinn is Actor Wilbur's third wife. His second, Suzanne Caubet, a niece of the late Sarah Bernhardt, divorced...
Chevrolet passed Ford when Model A was being prepared. Ford repassed Chevrolet late last summer. Now, Ford is making 6,000 cars a day. 1929 will be a telling year. Henry Ford will stand by his four and use his low price ($385 to $625) as his most potent weapon. Chevrolet will use arithmetic-six is more than four-"Bigger and Better...
Heirs Sell. The heirs of the late Book-publisher Henry Holt have sold their controlling interest in Henry Holt & Co. to the minority stockholders. The company will be reorganized, continue under the same name and probably under the presidency of Edward N. Bristol...
Clarence Douglas Dillon '31, of New York City, has been appointed assistant manager of the University football team, it was announced late Saturday night...