Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Preston Parish, cocky young promoter, was indicted for theft last week because he refused to turn over collateral put up by his Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. for a loan from a big stockholder. The collateral: bonds, promissory notes, "130 pieces of paper valued at ? each" -presumably shares in receivershipped Mo-Kan. Indicted early last year on a $35,000,000 Federal mail fraud charge. Promoter Parish in 1931 bought the old Presidential steam yacht Mayflower...
...Bristol, Va., Dr. John Preston Mc Connell, 66, president of East Radford, Va.'s State Teachers College, rose to address some 100 male & female colleagues of Southwestern Virginia, Inc., of which also he is president. Suddenly his trousers dropped, bunched about his knees. Cool, Dr. McConnell pulled them up, declared: "I'm indeed glad this happened. It has put everybody in a good mood...
...mighty shaft to honor our first President and a noble monument to our great Lincoln, in Washington, but we have no statue of Christ anywhere to signify that we are actually Christians and that we recognize Him as Christ the King." So last month spoke Rev. John Joseph Preston, a modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at the outdoor Wayside Shrine of the Passion which he founded near his church in Kearny, N. J. Father Preston was well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high, that Brazil dedicated...
Marriage Annulled. Preston Sturges, playwright (Strictly Dishonorable); and Eleanor Post Hutton, stepdaughter of General Foods Corp. Board Chairman Edward F. Hutton, granddaughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed...
...gift was officially recognized in the Probate Court yesterday. Theodora Lyman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was named as residuary legatee. The bequest will be known as the Andrew Preston Peabody Fund. The estate under the will, which was drawn in 1915, was estimated...