Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury: "Waves leaped high, smote windows and doors on the upper decks. The British White Star liner Olympic rolled like the tub of a washing machine. Said I, on being greeted by Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and my son-in-law, David K. E. Bruce, in Paris: 'It was a severe crossing, one of the worst I ever experienced.' I am in Europe, not for politics, but to visit my daughter who has recently been operated upon for appendicitis, in Rome...
...William A. Wieboldt of Chicago gave $500,000 for a hall of commerce, the contracts for this and another structure on Northwestern's new 'downtown' campus [in Chicago instead of out in Evanston, Ill.] were given to R. C. Wieboldt & Co. Last week, Raymond C. Wieboldt, son of the donors, returned to the university $153,872 which he had not needed in fulfilling his specifications. Said I: 'The money so honestly and thoughtfully returned will enable the university to complete the campus structures without soliciting new funds...
Died. Rafael Sabatini Jr., 19, only son of potent author Rafael Sabatini, creator of Scaramouche, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk; by accident while taking his mother to drive. The car overturned. Mrs. Sabatini was badly hurt...
William Whiteley, son of a country grain dealer, came to London and opened a draper's shop while the U.S. Civil War raged. He put his trust in window displays, at a time when storekeepers had to decoy customers into their murky shops. Victorians were dazzled, and he became the "Universal Provider." When shot to death* in 1907, he had a business worth $4,500,000. This, since the War, has supported the model garden village of Burhill, near Walton on the Thames, where several hundred aged men and women workers, indigents, prolong a lean existence in 300 cottages...
...Horace George Rayner who thought himself Merchant Whiteley's illegitimate son...