Word: son-in-law
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...John D. Rockfeller Jr.'s son-in-law, David Meriwether Milton, made news periodically all last spring by picking up investment trusts, adding them to his growing Equity Corp. Last week he stepped into another field. Missouri State Life Insurance Co. with $1,000,000,000 of insurance in force was taken over by Missouri's Insurance Commissioner O'Malley who charged that its $155,000,000 assets needed to be written down, perhaps as much as $27,000,000. On hand was Equity Corp. with a prompt offer: It formed a new firm, General American Life...
Many an advertiser has kicked out his agency, but few agencies have ever kicked out a good advertiser. Nonetheless. N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. "B. A. I. S. 1869"† national agency with headquarters in Philadelphia, last week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled...
...fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly twice as much oil as on an ordinary crossing, push the speed of the Rex up higher than a liner had ever steamed before and win for Italy at one stroke the two most coveted Atlantic records-fastest...
...heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act. They included four owners-Hal Price Headley, A. A. Baroni, Benjamin Creech and Jack Howard-also Creech's son-in-law, Ivan Parke, famed jockey of ten years ago, a Lexington veterinarian and four exercise boys...
...tunnels out of receivership but it is no secret that they have never been a very profitable venture. Meantime Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman are dead. Their widows are today two of Mr. Tracy's biggest stockholders, and John J. Mitchell, Mrs. Armour's son-in-law, is vice president. For the widows and orphans Mr. Tracy last week acted...