Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortescue is a name that falls readily into headline type. Each member of that socialite family has popped into the public prints in a different way. Major Granville Roland Fortescue, stepson of an uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, was a Rough Rider in Cuba, White House military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt, explorer, World War correspondent, A. E. F. field artillery officer wounded in action. Today he is a prolific fictionist. His wife, patrician Grace Bell Fortescue, is a cousin once removed of the late great Alexander Graham Bell. Their eldest daughter, Thalia Fortescue Massie, got world-wide attention two years...
...ROLAND MAXWELL...
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. decided to stick to commercial banking but. instead of abandoning securities, a new company, largely owned by Partners W. (for William) Averell Harriman and E. (for Edward) Roland Harriman, was formed. Four partners (but no Browns, no Harrimans) retired to officer Brown Harriman & Co., Inc. The rest of the executive staff was lifted almost entirely from outgoing City Co., including City Co.'s ranking officer Joseph P. Ripley, who I will be Brown Harriman's president...
...maze of specialized colleges, upped enrollment from 3,000 to 7,000. But he made one major mistake. As virtual Governor during the fatal six-month illness of Wartime Governor Ernest Lister, he started to clean up lumber camps and trod on the toes of a lumberman named Roland Hill Hartley. In 1926 Hartley was Governor and Suzzalo found himself...
Meanwhile Boss Guffey hurried to the White House. There he took out pencil and paper, added his votes to Pinchot's votes, threw in, for no good reason, Roland Morris' votes and was able to show the President that the Pennsylvania primaries had really been a great "liberal" victory since the total overwhelmed Reed's ballots...