Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brain, fear of a fractured skull, and weeks of convalescence. When he became well he and Miss Douglass were married, and went to Europe for two years ($8,000 railroad damages paid expenses). Although he spends one to three months each year in the woods with his son, hunting and fishing and strolling, he has never recovered the vibrant strength of his childhood in Texas, of his youth in Massachusetts (Worcester Academy, Harvard '05). He still has a bump on his head from that accident...
...oldest department store. Shortly he took on as partners C. B. Shea and A. P. Burchfield. Their business grew. Their children went into the business. Burchfields married Homes. Grandchildren of the first partners received their schooling and joined their parents in the Joseph Home Co. Joseph B. Shea, son of Joseph Home's partner, C. B. Shea, is now president of the company...
...saddle horse and carried coffee samples in his saddle bags. At that time he affected a pointed beard. When he came home from a trip he would potter around his kitchen oven roasting experimental blends of coffee. He used twelve-pint coffee pots for brewing his blends. His eight sons and one daughter guard those pots as heirlooms. Two of these sons sell Dodge cars in Tennessee. The other six are officers in the business. J. Will Neal and his son, J. Robert Neal, are vice presidents at Houston where the company has one of its seven coffee-blending factories...
Organization Problems. So many other food products companies has Postum Company absorbed recently that President Colby Mitchell Chester Jr. (son of the famed Rear Admiral) has found his greatest problem in integrating the several organizations. To get the correct solution he is not hurrying his staff. That policy Postum directors approve, and they have postponed the increase of Postum's dividend rate. It has been $5 a share (all common, no preferred) since August, 1926. There was one 100% stock dividend and a second is believed imminent...
...husband, Charles G. Norris, is a writer of note (Bread, Salt, etc.). Last week her son, 16-year-old Frank Norris, 2nd, namesake of Author-uncle Frank Norris (McTeague), student at Tamalpais School, San Rafael, Calif., won first prize in a special essay contest conducted by the Brooks-Bright Foundation. The subject of Son Norris's essay: The effect of the growth of population and diminishing food supply on future relations between the U. S. and Great Britain and their relations to other nations. The contest he won was among schools not members of the Foundation...