Word: scionness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...county jail for a year last week went one of Scranton, Pa.'s most wealthy and politically potent citizens. He was Edmund Beson Jermyn, scion of one of those old Scranton families whose farms were found to cover coal. Now more than 60, he had respectably acquired banks, hotels, real estate. Twice (1914-18, 1926-30) he was mayor of Scranton. The citizens were proud of him, suspected nothing until his last year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall...
Last week friends of Alexander Hamilton, 27, Harvard 1925, Wall Street banker, great-great-grandson of Federalist Alexander Hamilton, nephew of John Pierpont Morgan (his mother Juliet was a daughter of the late, great Morgan), called to the attention of editors of Republican newspapers in Manhattan Scion Hamilton's candidacy for a seat in the New York State Senate. First to interview him, to print his picture, was the New York Evening Post, founded by his great-great-grandfather (with John Jay) three years before he was shot to death by Aaron Burr on Weehawken Heights...
Nominee Baldrige, scion of a good old Nebraska family, went to Yale, was graduated with the Class of 1918. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (236 Ib.) he won the intercollegiate wrestling championship, played tackle on the football team. A steady, dogged, democratic young man, he made and held many a good and potent friend at New Haven. After two years at the Yale Law School, he returned to Omaha, married Regina Connell, who bore him two sons and a daughter, got his law degree at the University of Nebraska, was admitted to the bar in 1922. The genial contacts...
Michael John Cudahy, 23, Chicago meat scion, drank poison liquor, went to a Hollywood hospital, convalesced...
Despite Ethan Allen's blustering exploits, no real portrait or likeness of him is known to exist. Last week was posted a $250 reward for such a picture by Walter Butler Mahony, publisher and editor of the North American Review and John Pell, associate editor, Allen biographer, scion of the family that has owned the Fort Ticonderoga site for more than a century. Explained Mr. Pell...