Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...
...James Burgess Book Jr., 37, son of a foresighted Canadian physician who amassed Detroit real estate and a fortune. He has built up whole streets at a time, including the tallest hotel in the world, the Book-Cadillac. The world's tallest structures include : Stories Feet Eiffel Tower 1000 Woolworth Bldg., N. Y. C 50 792 Metropolitan Life, N. Y. C 50 700 Singer Bldg., N. Y. C 41 612 Municipal Bldg., N. Y. C 24 580 Bankers Trust, (tallest bank) N. Y. C 39 539 Pure Oil Bldg., (formely "Jewelers Chicago Bldg.") Chicago 40 523 Straus Bldg...
...crowd about his table. As they poured their wine, he poured his pearls on the table, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. He taught them beauty in gems and they bought for their women. Some began to buy for investment, for he proved how the values of precious stones mount. His son Michael had even a finer genius for matching jewels. Mrs. McKinley, wife of the one time President, loved to come to their store. She would be dressed in a slim-waisted jacket, with leg-of-mutton sleeves, an amiable gentlewoman whom Michael adored. One day she gave him a carnation...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones II, a son, Robert Tyre Jones III; in Atlanta...
...Barnum & Bailey, whose circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently revealed as an art collector (TIME, May 10); Robert, son of the late Charles, sings opera in Munich; wherever the circus of late years has gone, a private dining tent, with an English butler, has been set up alongside, in case one of the brothers should drop in. Art Collector John and the late Charles have also shown financial genius...