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...Scion of a long line of German-American brewmasters and brewery tycoons, young George Ehret has been studying singing in Florence for the past two years. Last week Italian police had him up in court along with Miss Grace Gunther, also a U. S. citizen, expatriated for 30 years in Florence. They were each accused of doing in a big way what most foreigners in Italy do in a small way: buying lire at cut rates from illegal black-bourse traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Expatriates Walloped | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...Chicago Reaper Scion McCormick, one of many non-Okie notables "bogged down" in scenic, climatic New Mexico (TIME, Oct. 28), thanks for another appraisal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Died. James Butler, 49, rich Manhattan grocery-store and real-estate scion, head of Empire City race track and co-owner of the Maryland State Fair track at Laurel; on the eve of the fall meeting at Empire; of a broken neck, when his horse failed to take a fence jump near Katonah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Married. Auto Scion Horace E. Dodge Jr., 40; and Showgirl Martha ("Mickey") Devine, 27, who once socked Primo Carnera in a Paris night club; he for the third time, she for the first; in Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...many a State last week (see p. 18), the Democrats' mess was the Republicans' pottage. Happy and united were the Republicans. The man they had picked to take Joe Guffey's Senate seat was Jay Cooke IV, who, like Penrose, is what is known as a scion, also comes from Philadelphia's famed 8th Ward, and is the wealthy inheritor of not only a 1776 name but 1776 courage, proved in the Meuse-Argonne offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Tough Cooke | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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