Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston another and more famed banking scion was promoted in another institution identified with family. Made board chairman of Old Colony Trust Co. was T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidgc, whose lineage is longer than Banker Smith's but whose bank was founded by his father, not grandfather. Since he split with the New Deal, the onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury has been an Old Colony vice president. Banker Coolidge as board chairman succeeded Gordon Abbott, who retired after 43 years in the institution...
...Cooper, Baby Peggy. Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus...
Married. Mrs. Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, granddaughter of California's late Senator James Graham Fair; and Henry Gassaway Davis III, coal scion, grandson of West Virginia's late Senator and Vice Presidential nominee, Henry Gassaway Davis, divorced last August by his new wife's cousin, Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter Grace; in the saloon of her father's $2,500,000 yacht Aha, moored at the Vanderbilt nine-acre Terminal Island, off Miami Beach...
Born. To Marshall Field III, 43, twice-divorced Chicago department store scion; and his third wife, Mrs. Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field: a daughter, their first child (his fourth, her third); in Manhattan...
Fund-raising as a business dates from the great money drives of War days. George Olver Tamblyn (Colgate 1903) was membership extension director of the Atlantic Division of the Red Cross when he met John Crosby Brown (Yale 1915), scion of the banking Brown brothers, son of Union Theological Seminary's onetime Professor William Adams Brown who married Anne Spencer Morrow to Charles Augustus Lindbergh. After conducting money drives for the Red Cross in 1920, they formed Tamblyn & Brown, a firm which prosperously endured until two years ago when the partners quarreled. Mr. Brown now runs Tamblyn & Brown...