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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Louis Warren Hill, 57, chairman of Great Northern Railway. Son of famed Great Northern Founder James Jerome ("Empire Builder") Hill, Louis Hill began working for Great Northern in 1893, became president in 1907, chairman in 1912. Said he: "My father advised me to retire from active participation in railway affairs when I reached the age of 40. That time came and passed 17 years...
...other two regents: Patriarch Miron Cristea of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, a venerable graybeard who barely survived a desperate illness last month; and sprightly Prince Nicholas of Rumania, a younger son of Dowager Queen Marie who minds his mother in matters of state but sometimes ignores her injunctions not to frequent night clubs...
Leaving Yale his Sophomore year (1926), Arthur David Schulte had been made vice president of Park and Tilford, Schulte-controlled. Last year it was announced Park and Tilford would form a chain of retail grocery stores. Son Schulte remained a vice president, became a director of other Schulte companies, but no Park and Tilford expansion took place...
...John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy interior decorator are nauseating; his elder married daughter is verging on adultery; his subdebutante child reeks of alcohol; his undergraduate son is a bumptious...
...baby was born, died. M. Allemand-the only one who knew-forced his hand, won the girl for his wife, thus vastly increasing his social status. But by that time he had become village librarian and Mme Bourrat devised a theory that he was the bastard son of a noble, thereby salving her own social consciousness and impressing her relatives. As for the girl-she would have been happy to marry anyone...