Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan town house, part of the time on a 50-acre estate in Pennsylvania's literary-minded Bucks County. Dark-eyed, grey-haired Beatrice Kaufman, whom he married in 1917, is gay, sociable, hostessy, keeps her husband in touch with such friends as Woollcott, Harpo Marx, the Robert Sherwoods, the Irving Berlins. To Woollcott, whom Kaufman has hilariously scalped in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and who has been at different times his collaborator, brief biographer and boss, he is devoted. Talking to him, he says, "is like holding your face before an open drain," but Woollcott...
Friends of the Supreme Court in this case were SEC, ICC, Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson. Mr. Douglas thought the Court's friends were right, that the common stockholders had pulled a fast one on the preferred, ruled that they could get their foot inside the door of the reorganized company only if they paid their way in with new money. The decision thus strengthened the hands of bondholders, preferred stockholders in future reorganizations. Wrote Mr. Justice Douglas...
...Nashville, Tenn., 50 years ago, lived a family named Rhea. Father Rhea ran a line of river boats on the Mississippi, loved the stockmarket, had been several times rich, several times poor. The family totem pole was the Wall Street Journal. Before his son Robert was out of high school, Father Rhea gave him the Journal's difficult William Peter Hamilton editorials on the Dow Theory of stock prices, told him to master them or get spanked...
After a smattering of college, Son Robert started a river line that nearly ran his father's out of business. Later Son Robert caught tuberculosis and went to Colorado. When World War I came, Rhea enlisted in the air force. As luck would have it he cracked up and got a piece of the propeller through his lung. Back to Colorado Springs went he, a permanent invalid...
...surprised to find with their letter a note saying that because Rhea's illness was worse (he was down to the use of part of only one lung, and was suffering from heart trouble in addition), his Junior Partner Perry Griner would take over. Last week, aged 52, Robert Rhea died...