Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Education of John L. Lewis is a process which has notably accelerated in recent years. Credit for the initial polishing of an extremely rough diamond goes to Mrs. Lewis, a onetime Iowa schoolmarm. Like the wife and scion of any prosperous businessman, Mrs. Lewis and her only son John L. Jr. were last week on their way to Europe for a summer vacation. About on a par with the decor of a successful mine superintendent's home is that of John L. Lewis' neat colonial house in Alexandria, Va. There in his lovely garden he now receives...
...still has plenty of timekeeping talent in the person of President Ralph H. Matthiessen, scion of the other GTI clock family. The first clock-making Matthiessen was a German immigrant with a Heidelberg education who made good with a zinc smelter in La Salle, Ill. He had an idea that clocks could be soldered together instead of riveted, at a great saving. In 1885 he founded Western Clock Co. near his smelter. His competitors called his Westclox line "lead clocks," but they sold faster & faster, and in 1910 Western made clock history by pricing...
CLANSMEN - Ethel Boileau - Dutton ($2.50). Pretentious history of a landed Scottish family, treating exhaustively the amorous career of a solid young scion, who is likely to interest the reader much less than he does the author...
...investment counsel service down within common reach. His plans include a nationwide organization with one office in each Federal Reserve district. Backer-directors of Young Management Corp. are Lawyer George Gordon Battle; Milton Whately Harrison, a trustee of Manhattan's huge Bowery Savings Bank; Giles G. Healey, scion of Boston's onetime carriage-building family; and Howard Earle Coffin, chairman of Southeastern Cottons, Inc. and reputedly the heaviest investor in Mr. Young's latest firm. Eventually there will be only two 42nd Street investment counsel firms with the name Young in them, since C. W. Young...
Married- Prince Aly Khan, 24. son& heir of the Rt. Hon. Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah ("The Aga Khan"); and the Hon. Joan Yarde-Buller. 28. divorced last autumn by Thomas Loel E. B. Guinness, brewing scion and swank Conservative member of Parliament, who named Prince Aly as corespondent; in Paris...