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...played with Arturo Toscanini and gave real contemplation to Brahms's First Concerto. He proved himself again in Chicago last week where audiences cheered him wildly. For the Chicago concerts motherly Signora Toscanini broke precedent and left the Maestro working in Manhattan to hear her new son-in-law play in the Midwest...
Frequently mentioned in the testimony as nominal directors of the Mellon holding companies were Son Paul Mellon, 27, last week honeymooning in Europe, and Daughter Ailsa Mellon Bruce, thirtyish, last week shuttling between Pittsburgh & New York. In one of the after-session, off-the-record receptions which Mr. Mellon and his handsome son-in-law David K. E. Bruce held almost every day for newshawks, the frosty old financier tried to warm up by explaining that Daughter Ailsa had named her personal holding company Ascalot "because people ask a lot." Then, as the newshawks tittered, he added gravely: "That...
Just for dinner and the horseplay of the initiation did the President stay. Then, accompanied by his initiate son, he entrained for Hyde Park and the bosom of his fun-loving family: mother, wife and daughter. Next day he initiated his new son-in-law, John Boettiger in Roosevelt pastimes. In a bright red sleigh with Daughter Anna by his side and Son-in-law John in a single seat behind, President Roosevelt drove for several miles over the snow-packed roads of the Roosevelt estate, to tea at the cottage near the Val-Kill furniture factory...
This produced in Rome profound explosions of Fascist wrath. At the Dictator's press bureau, run by his affable son-in-law Count Gelasio Ciano, the official spokesman said furiously of Abyssinia's Emperor "He was 'being smart!' Our Minister to Abyssinia has informed the Abyssinian Government that their unilateral effort will not stand...
...than "to do for animal husbandry in the 20th Century as much as was done for crop farming in the 19th Century by the invention of agricultural machinery." It was written by a rich, disputatious, immensely learned old gentleman named E. (for Ezra) Parmelee Prentice, who is a son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller...