Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Leiter, Chicago coal man, son of the late Levi Zeigler Leiter (onetime partner of Marshall Field), brother-in-law of the late Marquese Curzon of Kedleston, husband of Juliette Williams Leiter (famed Washington hostess). Reason: Prohibition...
Relatives of public figures often avoid the public eye. As often they cannot escape it. Many a political son and grandson has had a distaste for politics?viz., the late Robert Todd Lincoln?or keeps out of it because of a feeling that the glory he might gain might be partly reflected. A case of the latter kind is Grandson Henry Cabot Lodge, able political writer on the New York Herald Tribune, who has repeatedly declined nominations in Massachusetts. Cases exactly the opposite of Grandson Lodge are Sons Theodore Roosevelt (unsuccessful) and Son Robert Marion La Follette (successful...
...Other two: N. W. Ayer & Son (Philadelphia); Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (Manhattan...
...thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion drinking, yarn-swapping. Whether he was better off in Ohio, who can say-his son's possessions were "a wife, six children, two cows, one hog, a blind mare, and a sense of sad humor"; his grandson's a keen Irish sense of pathos, a true Irish gift...
Capital Administration Co. Ltd. was incorporated in Maryland last week, authorized to sell $20,000,000 securities as an investment trust with the co-operation and advice of British bankers. Among its directors is Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist; Artemus L. Gates, son-in-law of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison and vice president of the New York Trust Co. Banker Gates, as a husky War aviator fell within German lines, intrepidly turned his machine gun on his captors, was imprisoned, escaped, was recaptured...