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...State of Kansas. I think we will be able to prove that the Kansas City Star instigated all of this . . . and that Governor Woodring was a mere tool . . . forced to do the bidding of the Kansas City Star." Also Mr. Doherty charged that Publisher Longan's son-in-law, Lawyer Ben C. Hyde, Jr., nephew of Secretary Hyde, was interested in a gas company being formed which would compete with Cities Service, with the backing of Publisher Longan. This charge was hotly denied...
...July 1, 1927 Col. Henry Aaron Guinzburg, Jewish rubber manufacturer and philanthropist, gave his son Harold a $71,368 house as a wedding present. On Nov. 16, 1928 Col. Guinzburg died. The Government, contending that the gift was made in expectation of death to evade the inheritance tax, assessed the Guinzburg estate an extra $2,000. Col. Guinzburg's lawyer son-in-law James Marshall, son of the late great Louis Marshall, brought what the U. S. accepted as a test suit...
...goldenrod experiments (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929) and devote his energies to keeping cool. One hot day last week an automobile was ordered to take him driving. Waiting for it, the 84-year-old inventor suddenly seemed to doze off. He had collapsed. Sons Theodore, Thomas Alva Jr., Charles and Mr. Edison's daughter & son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. John Eyre Sloan, bustled about excitedly.* Doctors arrived from Morristown, N. J. and Riverdale, N. Y. in a jiffy. Dr. Hubert Shattuck Howe, who has attended Mr. Edison all summer, was playing golf on Long Island. He hired an airplane, flew...
John Barry Ryan, son-in-law of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, called Vice President Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones of Curtiss-Wright Corp. on the telephone at 3:30 a. m. Mr. Ryan said he wanted Mr. Jones to fly to Southampton and to Boston with some books that morning. Mr. Jones agreed and four hours later alighted at Piping Rock Country Club where Mr. Ryan handed him books addressed to Mrs. Ryan, to Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, Cardinal O'Connell and Eleonora Sears. The books were copies of Verses by Barry Vail. "Barry Vail" is John Barry Ryan. Sample...
...Spying out good night life for his majestic son-in-law, gay old Prince Svasti last week bewitched the manager and bartender of Manhattan's new, swank Terrace Club by letting them smoke one of his fat, perfumed special cigarets whose wrappings are lotus leaves...