Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain kind of news is called "American." Admittedly the foremost "American" editor in London is Mr. Ralph D. ("Blum") Blumenfeld of the London Daily Express. Operated by one Dave Blumenfeld, son of Ralph, is the London Feature Service. Last week this enterprising bureau cabled to the U. S. a story "not to be reproduced in the British Isles." Apparently Canadians were considered sufficiently "American" to enjoy what followed...
...Seminary and professor of Systematic Theology. He has written several important books on theological subjects including "Christianity and the Progress of Man," "The Final Faith," and "Christian Ethics in the World War." He has also written several books about missionary work in South Africa where he was born, the son of a missionary. He is a constant contributor to religious and philosophical periodicals...
Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...
...reception in her late husband's birthplace, No. 28 East 20th St., Manhattan. Plans were announced to raise a $250,000 endowment fund for the maintenance of the Roosevelt birthplace; a $50,000 mortgage on the house was ceremoniously burned. Then, she sailed for Switzerland to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Derby...
...1919?to Paris and the grave of her son; Nov. 1919?to Brazil; Jan. 1922?Antwerp, thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923?World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...