Word: stepson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main Ledger problem has been to support the paper in the style to which he had accustomed it. He had fed it by buying up other Philadelphia papers (the Evening Telegraph, Press, North American) for it to devour. His heirs found the meat bill was too costly. In 1933 Stepson-in-law John C. Martin sold the New York Post (for which Curtis had paid $1,620,000 in 1923) to J. David Stern. Two years later the Philadelphia Inquirer (cost, in 1930: $18,000,000) was sold to Moe Annenberg, famed ex-Hearst tough guy, now in jail...
Married. John Clark Burgard Jr., 18, stepson of Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett; and Jean Ewing Duff, 18; in Wilton, Conn...
Married. William Davey, stepson of Cyrus McCormick (reapers), son of Painter Randall Davey; and Roberta Storms Runyon of Chicago; each for the second time; in Santa...
...damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them for a traffic accident. // A cinemagoer who said he tripped over Chico Marx's sprawled legs in a theater sued Chico and the management...
Construction has a prodigal stepson for which a real feast is spread about once a generation, usually combined with war: shipbuilding. And 1940 was its festal year. For Admiral Stark's two-ocean Navy, shipyards launched a naval vessel every twelve days; few were the Washington glamor girls who had not smashed a bottle on a prow. The Maritime Commission at year's end had 932,000 gross tons of merchant shipping under construction, was launching a vessel a week (last week's: the 17,500-ton Rio Parana, for New York-South America service). The venerable...