Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Eliot Wight Stillman, 19, nephew of famed Manhattan capitalist James Alexander Stillman, of Mrs. Percy Avery Rockefeller & Mrs. William G. Rockefeller; in an automobile accident; near Seligman, Arizona...
...bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites was egged, bricked, undeterred...
Married. Gifford Pinchot II, nephew of onetime Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, brother of Rosamond Pinchot. famed society actress (The Miracle); and Janine Voisin, daughter of Gabriel Voisin. French engineer and automobile manufacturer; in Boulogne-sur-Seine, France...
...Nephew of famed "Baseball Tsar" Landis, senior at Columbia. He entered the University when he was 15, wore short pants and black ribbed stockings through his Freshman year. His ambition to be a coxswain was frustrated by his mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual...
Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor...