Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...