Word: scionness
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...Court. His opinion was a display of wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether or not it was good law was another matter. The Judge. Behind the decision was a tall, angular, sandy-haired man of 39 who has the distinction of being the youngest member of the Federal judiciary. Scion of the rich O N T thread* family, he was born in Newark, learned law at Harvard, served in the A. E. F. He lives quietly in Princeton, has not taken a drink since Prohibition became law. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him to the bench after the Anti-Saloon...
...What do you mean?" gravely replied Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, President of the Japanese House of Peers. President of the Japanese Red Cross, scion of ancestors who ruled Japan as Shoguns or Tycoons while the power of the Imperial House was in abeyance (1603-1868). "What are breadlines?" "He doesn't know what breadlines are!" exclaimed the questioner with a wink for his fellows. "Why sure, you know Prince, breadlines are a lot of poor guys standing in line to get a handout-breadlines, see?" "We have had nothing like a breadline in Japan that I have ever heard...
Died. Harry Payne Whitney, 58; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Scion of a distinguished Puritan line, he inherited a large part of the fortune* founded by his father, William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland organizer of the Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York) and other traction and rail corporations. In 1890 he married Gertrude, sculptress daughter of the second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust...
...Lords of the Pampas." As man of the hour emerged General Jose Evaristo Uriburu, retired. Scion of the rich, land owning classes-the "Lords of the Pampas" against whom Dr. Irigoyen fought his way to power as the champion of the working class-General Uriburu was nevertheless supposed to have been a personal friend of El Hombre, to have owed to him his rank of general...
Sued for Divorce. Michael John Cudahy, 23, Chicago meat scion (poisoned by liquor three weeks ago, TIME, Aug. 11); by Mrs. Muriel Evans Cudahy. Charge: cruelty...