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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Richard Kidston Law. reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune, son of the late British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law; to Mary Virginia Nellis of Rochester, N...
...Refunds. Large corporations pay large income taxes, sometimes get large refunds back from the government. According to Representative John N. Garner (Dem.) of Texas, the U. S. Treasury has paid $2,000,000,000 in refunds and secret credits to taxpayers, during Andrew W. Mellon's term as Secretary of the Treasury. Congressman Garner called the Treasury Secretary a "Santa Claus" to large corporations, objected particularly to refunds made to the U. S. Aluminum Co., controlled by Mellon interests. Claiming that Aluminum Co. refunds totalled $1,267,426, Congressman Garner said: "Mr. Mellon, this grand Secretary that you hear...
...they must to all men of strong, successful growth, completion and fulfillment came, last week, to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. The boy from Potsdam, N. Y., and the St. Paul lawyer of national prestige- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said...
Throughout the U. S. smart citizens and radio listeners know that Tycoon Young is Chairman of General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
Married. Ruth Brady, daughter of the late famed Manhattan financier James Cox Brady; and the Hon. Michael Scott, heir presumptive to the earldom of Eldon; in Bernardsville, N...