Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Zenas Crane Colt, son of Samuel Colt of Pittsfield, Mass., and great nephew of the late U. S. Senator W. Murray Crane; to Miss Cynthia Means, of Brookline, Mass...
Married. Miss Jean Conover Norwood, daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Norwood, famed Manhattan pastor; to Malcolm Campbell McMaster, son of Rev. Edward A. McMaster, Williamstown pastor; in Manhattan; by their fathers...
...founder of the Ritz Hotels did not choose that curious monosyllable by chance; Ritz was his last name; his first, splendidly enough, was César. The son of a Swiss farmer, his first skirmish among European hostelries occurred when he opened a restaurant in Baden-Baden, the Kurhaus. He boasted that he never forgot a face. But the éclat which attached itself to his restaurant requires a more complete explanation. César Ritz read faces as well as remembering them; he was an instinctive & selective snob, one of those likeable snobs whose hauteur is inherent...
Canadian tobaccoman, left an estate valued between $50,000,000 and $100,000,000. According to his will, the principal is not to be disturbed for 50 years, but the interest goes to his widow and son, Mortimer B. Davis Jr. (husband of Dancer Rosie Dolly). After 50 years...
...Son Mortimer is dead, 75 per cent of the principal is to be used for the founding of a Mortimer B. Davis Hospital open to all races and sects but under Jewish management; the remainder is for other Canadian philanthropies...