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...instance, the Class possesses a Roosevelt who does not plan to enter politics in Theodore Roosevelt, 3rd. He will forsake the path trod by his grandfather, his father, and his fifth cousin, once removed, to become an ordinary business man. The scion of another family, significant in American history, David Rockefeller, also plans to enter business after a year or two of graduate study in economics...
...this was what raised British Labor's blood to boiling point last week- the White Paper would virtually put industry throughout the British Isles on a basis of Wartime control by the Government over the activities of Capital & Labor. Under a Prime Minister who is the leisured scion of Baldwins Ltd., hereditary British iron founders, Labor considered itself sure last week to get the meagre end of a generous square deal for Capital. Under the White Paper scheme, selected British firms capable of armament production would be guaranteed in peace time sufficient Government orders to keep their works operating...
Sweater letters won by collegiate red-bloods are viewed with haughty amusement by that scion of numerous bloods-royal, Prince René de Bourbon-Parme, upon whose sports-sweater are the royal
Married. Marshall Field III, 42, twice-divorced Chicago department store scion, who receives the bulk of his grandfather's $140,000,000 estate when 50; and Ruth Pruyn Phipps, who divorced Socialite Ogden Phipps last month; in Manhattan...
Died. Italy's No. 1 Socialist duke, Leone Caetani, 66, Prince of Teano, 15th Duke of Sermoneta, elder brother of Italy's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Don Gelasio Caetani, first cousin of Britain's present Ambassador to the U. S., Sir Ronald Lindsay, scion of an age-old Roman family which sired Popes Gelasius II and Boniface VIII and author of the monumental history of Mohammedanism, Annalli Dell' Islam; in Vancouver, Canada. Since much of the historic Caetani lands lay in the Pontine Marshes, the Socialist duke conceived enlightened plans for draining them...