Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-suffering is notable, but not in Pittsburgh United. As early as 1931 preferred shareholders in Pittsburgh United were in full cry for liquidation of the company, which would enable them to salvage their own equities while the common stockholders went begging. Led by Richard King Mellon, his sister, Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, and Mellon friends including Aluminum Co. of America's President Roy Arthur Hunt, they brought suit against the company's management. Pittsburgh United's President John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who is also president of an investment company which held a block...
Alcyone, Asterope, Electra, Kelaine, Maia, Merope and Taygete were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleïone. According to one Greek myth, the seven sisters were pursued so ardently by Hunter Orion that Zeus changed them into a constellation of stars, the Pleiades. One of the seven is dim because of mourning for a sister who married a mortal...
...side of a courtroom flanked by various Leiter-blooded, titled British progeny, staring icily across at her brother Joseph's bald head, demanding that the Illinois courts remove him as trustee of the Levi Leiter estate, charging incompetence and extravagance, calling for a special accounting. Sister Nancy Campbell stood by Joseph. Perhaps he had once schemed to buy the Great Wall of China and preserve it for posterity. What if he did once order 50 dozen pairs of silk socks? "I am a hard-headed American businessman," he told the court. "While my sisters were going to Europe marrying...
...completed, Joseph resigned voluntarily. Lawyers' fees for the eight-year quarrel were $1,012,500. Joseph died in 1932. He caught cold watching horse races at New Orleans, insisted on returning to the track blanketed in a wheelchair, took pneumonia. His estate totalled approximately $1,000,000. Sister Mary died in 1906, with no sons to inherit her husband's title. Lord Curzon married again, a Mrs. Alfred Duggan; was elevated to be a Marquess, making Mrs. Duggan a Marchioness. Sister Nancy died in 1930. Sister Marguerite lives on as the Dowager Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire. Awaiting...
NOTHING Is SAFE-E. M. Delafield- Harper ($2.50). The problems of a hypersensitive boy and his robust sister in a post-divorce world. Readers in search of a better buy may read Margaret Kennedy's Together and Apart...