Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week. Lord Dewar's nephew, John Arthur Dewar, who inherited his wealth, proved himself also his uncle's heir in the matter of Raeburns. At a Christie's auction in London he bid ?11,025 ($56,337.75) for a Raeburn portrait of two young brothers named Allen. Another, lesser Raeburn was sold in 30 seconds also to Mr. Dewar, for ?4,620 ($23,608.20). A Romney went for $25.217.85. The Raeburn portrait of the Allen brothers brought the top price in London's biggest art sale since Depression...
...first venture into theatrical production, Co-producer Donald Edward Baruch, nephew of Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, unhappily picked what is known to his newly adopted profession as a "turkey...
...rehearsing Mrs. Ryan found that a sneak thief had taken her $850 bag, her $250 cigaret case, her $135 pocket money. Among four other rehearsing socialites robbed of $6,000 or more in jewels and cash was Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton whose husband is J. P. Morgan's nephew...
...drawing room sat other kin of the late Mrs. Vanderbilt: Nephews Harold Stirling and William Kissam Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb; Brother-in-law Frederick K.; Sisters-in-law Emily (Mrs. Henry B. White), Edith (Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, widow of George Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts...
Died. Theodore Douglas Robinson, 50, nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Coolidge; of pneumonia; in Warren...