Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood died in Baltimore of apoplexy. She was the only child of a great editor and her death will have its reverberations through the middle west, the reason is simple. Her father, William Rockhill Nelson, was nearly 40 when he went out to Kansas City from Fort Wayne, Ind., that was 1880. In his new home he founded the Kansas City Star. He made it not only one of the greatest but one of the most prosperous papers in the middle West. It not only dominated Kansas City but all the surrounding country...
Died. Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood, 43, daughter of the late William Rockhill Nelson, founder of the Kansas City Star, and wife of Irwin Kirkwood, editor of the Star; in Baltimore, of apoplexy...
...Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich . . . was . . . close to Roosevelt" (TlME, Feb. 15). As close as is a boxer taking a knock-out to his antagonist who gives...
...Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," busied himself with besieging one of Feng's armies at Hsinyanchow last week. Dr. Nils D. Nelson of St. Paul, Minn., the resident missionary Bishop, was "accidentally shot by Wu's troops...
...quietly goes his way as one of Rhode Island's three Congressmen and does not even mention in his official biography in the Congressional Directory that his father was Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich...