Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Cyrus Yawkey Woodson, 19, grandson and only male heir of Wisconsin's famed Lumberman-Financier Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey; by his own hand (pistol) ; in Wausau...
...Yawkey, foster son of the late Detroit Lumberman William Hoover Yawkey, celebrated his 30th birthday last February by buying the Boston Red Sox for $1,000,000. The club has been in or very near last place in the American League since 1924. Knowing Boston for an enthusiastic baseball town, Sportsman Yawkey set out to rebuild the team. Including last week's deals he spent $405,000 for new players. Also he replaced Marty McManus with Bucky Harris as manager. Result: dopesters conceded Boston a good chance to finish high next year. Philadelphia's Catcher Cochrane went...
...bore him one daughter, Mary Louise, who grew up to marry Editor Bok. and in turn to bear him two sons. Curtis & Gary. Less than six months after his first wife died in 1910, Publisher Curtis married his second cousin, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury, widow of a Milwaukee lumberman. She died a year ago. This second marriage was childless, but "Cousin Kate" already had three daughters, one of whom married John Charles Martin...
...election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been on the R. F. C. board since its inception (February 1932), has acted as chairman in rotation with the other three active members for two months. He has seen R. F. C. loan resources rise...
...Examiner. She is related to Publisher Hearst, was his mother's constant companion for years. On the ChronicL- Mildred Brown is assisted by Mrs. Oscar Sutro Jr. of the sugar-&-mining Sutros. Nearest to a dictator is Agnes Duff Fenwick of the Scripps-Howard News, divorced wife of Lumberman Hugh Fenwick. Los Angeles looks to Mrs. Juana Neal Levy of the Times for social guidance. Hearst's Examiner has "Cholly Angelo" (Mrs. Jean Loughborough) and gives prominent bylines to Princess Marie de Bourbon, cousin of Spain's Alfonso. Sh" tells most of her information to Mrs. Loughborough...