Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest gift to mankind," she was once called in a nominating speech), some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John Wanamaker's daughter, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, whose husband is the new Mayor of Palm Beach...
...long night of quorum calls and Arizona oratory changed the Senate's mind about not adjourning when the House had suggested. Senator Curtis bided his time until late Tuesday morning, when Senators begin longing for lunch. Then he put again the proposal on which the Senate had split 40-40 the day before. This time the Vice President got no chance to keep his minions at work. The Senators voted 46 to 35 that they had had enough...
...daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes. No, he had never claimed to be "The Richest Man in the World." Well, perhaps he had been the richest man in Germany, for a time, while the mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts. What? Fraulein Stinnes shrugged. Why trouble to rehearse the details of her father's death and the titanic business crash which her brothers were powerless to avert. Clarenore Stinnes is 22, lives in the present, is rich...
...departure took on the semblance of a stately pilgrimage. The event was of paramount importance because, for the first time in the present decade of Civil War, it can now be substantially claimed that all of China proper is under a single regime-the Nationalist Government, founded by the late, famed and revered Dr. Sun Yatsen, and led to victorious dominion by its present Generalissimo, slender, modest, democratic Chiang Kaishek...
Samuel Emory Thomason, onetime general manager of the Chicago Tribune, purchased last week for some $2,000,000 the Chicago Daily Journal, oldest newspaper in Chicago (founded in 1844). Associated with him in the purchase was John Stewart Bryan, handsome publisher of the Richmond, Va., News-Leader. The late John C. Eastman had willed the Daily Journal to five employes before his death...