Word: son-in-law
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...literate U. S. citizens that combination of names could suggest only one thing-the great Philadelphia publishing family long headed by Cyrus H. K. Curtis and well served by his son-in-law, Edward William Bok. Mr. Bok died in 1930, Mr. Curtis last month. To Curtis Bok, able grandson of an able grandfather, able son of an able father, passed the prestige and tradition and responsibility, if not the immediate wealth of the Curtis-Bok family. But when for the first time since his succession Curtis Bok stepped into the limelight to perform an important act of public service...
...newspapers. He failed to repeat. The Curtis-Martin newspapers, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Evening Ledger, Inquirer, and the New York Evening Post comprise a weak point in the Curtis frontiers. Nevertheless they strengthened Publisher Curtis's position as head of the first family of Philadelphia. When Son-in-law Edward William Bok resigned the editorship of Mr. Curtis's Ladies' Home Journal the family turned from money-making to social service, music, peace. Cultural Mr. Bok founded and conducted his American Foundation, gave yearly prizes for outstanding service to the city. In Philadelphia Mrs. Bok founded and still...
...first batch of Federal small jobs. ¶ By means of a highly complicated schedule, the President had managed to see most of his brood during his vacation cruise. One whom he did not see, and of whom he had not seen much since the inauguration, was Son-in-law Curtis B. Dall. Broker Dall did not even appear at the White House during the prolonged stay of Mrs. Dall (''America's Sweet-heart") and their children "Sistie" & "Buzzie." Last week Curtis Dall and John J. Edgerton dissolved their two-month-old Wall Street brokerage house. Mr. Dall...
...great ambition of the long-legged Earl of Harewood. King George's son-in-law, that not only the 29.700 Yorkshire acres which he owns but all the rest of Britain's broad acres shall become again the tidy landscape painter's paradise that they were in the days of Turner and Morland. To this end he has become President of the Scapa Society for the Prevention of Disfigurement in Town & Country. Fortnight ago the S. S. P. D. T. C. had its 4Oth anniversary. Stroking his graceful grey mustache. Lord Harewood made his annual report...
...son-in-law of the late Abraham Wolff (one of the early partners). Since 1931 Felix Warburg's wisecracking Son Frederick, Otto Kahn's twice-married Son Gilbert, have been members of the firm. And Jacob Schiff's Grandson John, only 26 years old, became a partner, succeeding soon afterward to the large interest in the firm held by his father, the late Mortimer. Another partner is Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced Straws) son-in-law of Jerome J. Hanauer who was one of the pillars of the firm till he retired last January...