Word: levi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City Tibbetts, Walter I. Jr. 18 210 6. Choato Winchendon Tyng, William W. 18 160 5.9 Kent Jamaica Plain Witmer, William B. 19 170 5.9 So. Pasadena High Pasadena, Calif. CENTERS Burnham, Amory E. 19 155 5.10 Groton Bolton Dietz, Sheldon 17 185 6.2 Boston Latin Brookline Duff, Levi B. IV 18 155 5.10 Ben Avon High Ban Avon, Pa. Foster, Walter H. Jr. 17 165 5.11 Belmont Hill Belmont Grover, Thomas 19 165 5.9 Roxbury Latin Canton Harder, Lewis B. 19 186 6.1 St. Mark's New York City Holt, Brantley Jr. 18 175 6. Ellensburg High Ellensburg...
Almost as inappropriate as the hall's equipment in the alert eyes of the deaf-mutes, was the message from President Roosevelt read off to them on his nimble fingers by the N. A. D.'s dapper President Marcus Levi Kenner of Manhattan. Deaf-mutes applaud by waving their hands in the air, but the President's hope "that the present great activity in those branches of physics affecting acoustics may result in the development of vastly improved aids to hearing" caused only perfunctory gesticulations. Fact is that the nation's 100,000 stone deaf...
...fight, Chicago remembers only too well. For eight long years Marguerite sat on one side of a courtroom flanked by various Leiter-blooded, titled British progeny, staring icily across at her brother Joseph's bald head, demanding that the Illinois courts remove him as trustee of the Levi Leiter estate, charging incompetence and extravagance, calling for a special accounting. Sister Nancy Campbell stood by Joseph. Perhaps he had once schemed to buy the Great Wall of China and preserve it for posterity. What if he did once order 50 dozen pairs of silk socks? "I am a hard-headed...
When the widow of Levi Leiter died in 1913 she created a $600,000 trust fund of her own. She then had three living children. She provided that the income from the $600,000 should go to three selected grandsons, but the boys must live in Chicago half of each year and work for their grandfather's estate. When the last of Levi Leiter's own children died, the three boys would get the $600,000. But if they failed to do their duty by Chicago, the $600,000 would be divided among all the grandchildren, including seven...
...recuperating from illness. Last week all three were suing the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., trustee of the estate, asking that the Chicago residence and work provisions be vacated since there is really no work to do in connection with the Leiter estate. Named as co-defendants are Levi Leiter's seven grandchildren...