Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged that General José Belloni, head of the European purchasing board, had shared in at least $60,000 commissions paid his dentist-nephew. Alberto Jonchi, by Colt Co. Few doubted the nephew had been paid. Senator Bravo read letters to prove that the brave uncle had been paid...
Died. Ganson Depew, 68, attorney, Buffalo's "Citizen No. 1," nephew of the late Chauncey Depew; of pneumonia; in Buffalo...
Died. Percy Avery Rockefeller, 56, son of the late William G. Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr.; following a stomach operation; in Manhattan. Little known to the public, he was a shrewd, quiet investor in a score of corporations. Year ago he resigned from the board of National City Bank whose onetime President Charles E. Mitchell he had backed...
...after Irvin S. Cobb's quiet Judge Priest stories and permitted but a minimum of head-ducking. Funnyman Rogers is a less hackneyed philosopher than he was in earlier films. Time is the slow Kentucky '90s. Plot is concerned with a judge who is fond of his nephew who is fond of the pretty but poor white trash next door. Not until the courtroom scene discloses that a reticent, no-account town character named Gillis, once convicted of murder, is not only the young girl's father but also a great Confederate hero of the Civil...
...Ross, however, has not glittered unblemished for the past 33 years. During the War it went into debt. Deficits loomed bigger & bigger and preferred dividends accumulated. Messrs. Skiff & Ross retired, and Manhattan's banking house of Lehman Brothers, which had floated Jewel stock, took command. The late Harold Lehman, nephew of New York's Governor, asked a Wartime friend to take charge of rehabilitation as vice president & treasurer. Resigning from his post in the Bureau of Supplies & Accounts, Commander John Milton Hancock, U. S. N., went to work...