Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short belt, which girdles his slender waist, hang, metaphorically, the scalps of a dozen conquered War Lords, among them that of the once dread Chang Tso-lin, who for a decade held Manchuria, and who dominated all North China from his barbaric Court at Peking. Last week the son of defeated and assassinated Marshal Chang Tso-lin, young Chang Hsuch-liang, was reported to have hoisted the Nationalist flag over Manchuria and to have sworn fealty to Nationalism...
...breakfast and napkins for dinner. Kansas City, Mo., has some 385,000 inhabitants; but the Times and the Star, covering a wider field, have a combined daily circulation of almost exactly 500,000. Their only competitor has been the morning-evening-Sunday combination of the Dickeys, father and son. Last fortnight, the Dickeys discontinued their morning paper, threw all their efforts into their evening-Sunday paper, calling it the Journal-Post. Again and again the question is asked: Will all cities the size of Des Moines or Kansas City or Milwaukee or even Cleveland have eventually just one 24-hour...
Married. Francis Lee Higginson 3d, son of Boston Financier Francis Lee Higginson; to Dorothy Lucas of Blundell Sands, England; in Blundell Sands. He met her last winter while she was swimming instructress on a world cruise...
...worth of common and preferred stock outstanding. A. Iselin & Co. and Roosevelt & Son, investment bankers, owned two-thirds of the stock. The par of both kinds (preferred and common) is $100. On the stock markets early last week the shares were considered worth only $80 each. The Van Sweringens offered the Iselin-Roosevelt group the full $100, and gained the purchase. B. R. & P. shares are not worth $100. But so great is general confidence in Van Sweringen financing that stock buyers at once offered $98 a share for what minority stock might reach the market...
...begins to burn. And Quarryman Guido Murray Fabbricotti is not wholly Latin. His indolent Italian temperament is pricked into action by the Scottish blood of his mother. Guide's father, Bernardo Fabbricotti, 64 years ago, married Helen Murray, a Scotch noblewoman of sorts. Son Guido inherited the quarries of his father and the early rising hours of his mother-together with an English public school accent and a love for good horses...