Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virgin territory, some 200 miles north of Bombay and eleven miles from the nearest railway. It was on the vast estates of fierce-mustached, smoldering-eyed, trembling-lipped Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of mild Saint Gandhi's wealthiest followers. As might be expected, this great mogul, scion of a rich Bombay family of landed proprietors, is no radical. He insists that "In accordance with ancient Indian tradition we must see that the landlord ever remains the father and guardian of his tenants!" But although he is violently opposed to the Socialistic tenets of many of his fellow party members...
...Scion of a family that has always managed to find more than one way to skin a political cat, Wisconsin's Progressive young Governor Philip Fox La Follette last year tried a new way of getting after his State's privately owned utility companies. Since Wisconsin's Constitution prevented the State from launching publicly owned utilities, ingenious Phil La Follette got four of his associates headed by Republican Assemblyman Charles Perry to charter a private corporation named Wisconsin Development Authority. Ostensible purpose of WDA, for which the La Follette-controlled legislature authorized annual grants, was to engage...
Snow found Soviet China a territory about the size of England. He was welcomed by wiry, black-bearded Red Commander Chou Enlai, scion of a Mandarin family, one-time head of Whampoa Academy (Chiang Kai-shek's officers' training school), who suggested a 92-day itinerary, gave Snow permission to write as he pleased. Astonished at the youthfulness of the Red Army personnel (average age of its officers was 24, of its rank & file, 19), Snow was more astonished by the background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort...
...Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts in cementing the romance of their theatre-born ward (Joy Hodges) and Scion John King. Since this scheme merely involves hoodwinking Alice Brady it turns out to be not too difficult. Comics Auer and Savo dabble in the occult. House impersonates an English noblewoman, in his spare moments trains Fall Guy Lahr for a wrestling bout. Actress Brady is properly taken in. Best shots...
...Scion of an ancient Venetian family, suave, blond Count Cippico is a close friend of Arthur Davis, chairman of the board of Aluminum Co. of America. Both men are heavy smokers and some three years ago they got to discussing some means of eliminating nicotine. Mr. Davis thought of an aluminum holder with a filter of activated alumina, an absorbent much used in chemistry. This proved too expensive, but in the experiments Aluminum Co. Chemist R. B. Derr noticed that butts of the cigarets in contact with aluminum were always soggy and black with absorbed nicotine and tar. This...