Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican ward boss before his family took over the town's Democracy. His chief interest now appears to be sport. He frequents race tracks, raises gamecocks on Brother Daniel's Catskill farm. Thence last week the Clan O'Connell directed negotiations for its scion's return. Obeying the kidnappers' instructions, the names of three sets of intermediaries, 31 in all, were published in code in Albany and New York newspapers. The intermediaries were cabaret operators, ex-beer truck drivers, saloon waiters, tipsters and other questionable characters-all friends of the democratic O'Connells. Neither...
Over the clipped lawn of Britain's famed Royal Military College at Sandhurst where many a royal scion, British, Spanish, Asiatic and Balkan has learned the difficult art of the "slow march," 50 dim, sweating figures executed a strange maneuver one midnight last week. Symbols of R. M. C.'s 134 years of crack officer-breeding are eight ponderous brass cannon whose snouts once faced the British at Waterloo, now yawn harmlessly on Sandhurst's lawn. The 50 dim figures scuttled toward them like ants toward dead beetles. The raiders' leader deployed his men, half...
...able father, passed the prestige and tradition and responsibility, if not the immediate wealth of the Curtis-Bok family. But when for the first time since his succession Curtis Bok stepped into the limelight to perform an important act of public service, it was not as the scion of the rulers of a huge publishing empire but as a stubbornly independent individual doing what he considered his independent duty...
These young men, still in their twenties and early thirties, can do little to carry on the continuity of the firm's experience. Today that continuity rests more upon non-family members. One of them is Sir William Wiseman (loth scion of a Baronetcy founded in 1628) who came to the U. S. as chief of the British Military Intelligence during the War, became intimate with Col. House, served as British adviser at Versailles. He has been with K. L. since 1921 although only made a partner four years ago. Another is George Wallace Bovenizer (a partner since...
...unsolved death of Zachary Smith Reynolds, Camel cigaret scion (TIME, July 18): agreement between the Reynolds family, his second wife Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds and his first wife Anne Cannon Reynolds, towel heiress, awarding $2,000,000 each to his two children, Libby Reynolds' son Zachary Smith Jr. and Anne Cannon Reynolds...