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...Louis' more snobbish socialites, the Busches never got into the St. Louis Country Club, but started their own Bridle Spur Hunt Club which developed a swankier waiting list. August's son. August Jr. is vice president of the company but August himself is still the sidewhiskered patriarch of U. S. beer, hurling to the last his verbal thunderbolts at Prohibition. While Missouri had the greatest brewery of the U. S., New York produced more than twice as much beer as any other state. The Hell Gate Brewery of George Ehret was going strong before Busch rose, the greatest...
...fact that Jesse Isidor Straus speaks French fluently undoubtedly weighed in favor of his being sent to France instead of staying home as Secretary of Commerce. Aged 60, he takes his job of a Harvard Overseer seriously. Even more seriously does he take the job of being patriarch to his clan of children and grandchildren, whom he keeps together in a Park Avenue apartment building which he built for the purpose. He is also patriarchal toward his 8,000 employes at Macy's, who call him "Mr. Jesse." Last week Mr. Jesse summoned them, asked them to write letters...
...There was a mean trick played on us somewhere. God put us in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people." says Patriarch Ty Ty, in a kind of final apology for the outrageous behavior of his children. Old Ty Ty was a Georgia cracker whose dusty little farm lay fallow while he and all his family dug in it for gold. Sometimes their faith wavered, but never Ty Ty's. Fifteen years he had been digging. When he heard that an albino was supposed to be a good divining-rod he went and roped...
Officiating in Belgrade Cathedral, Bishop Mardary voiced his joy at the Patriarch's prompt action, declared: "Jugoslavs firmly believe that the United States is destined to play a high, historic rÔle in consolidating the disrupted relations of mankind...
...Present patriarch of the Mayos is Dr. William James, 71, senior A. M. A. past president (1906). His two daughters are married to professors of surgery...