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...American Spectator appeared an autobiographical article called "Why I Changed," by James H. R. Cromwell, one-time millionaire socialite. Cromwell is the stepson of Edward Townsend Stotesbury, head of J. P. Morgan's Philadelphia affiliate, Drexel & Co. He married the daughter of Motorman Horace E. Dodge, entered Drexel & Co., but quickly determined to head his own business like his stepfather and father...
Died. Alexander Van Rensselaer, 82, a founder and longtime president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, board president of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Last February when his stepson John R. Fell sensationally died of a knife wound in Solo, Java, Alexander Van Rensselaer protested it could not be suicide because Fell was "not a quitter" (TIME. March...
Publisher Curtis took a great fancy to Stepson-in-law Martin, soon lifted him out of the Milwaukee machinery business to manage his Public Ledger. Young Mr. Martin made good. Eventually he was given charge of all Curtis newspapers. His life was insured for $6,500,000. He raised a family of five, in a house across the road from Lyndon, the Curtis estate in Wyncote. Pa. And he became known on the outside as the "crown prince" of the Curtis organization...
When Cyrus Curtis's will was opened a month ago. the public first realized what the family had long known-that Stepson-in-law Martin was not to succeed to the throne. His wife. Alice, was bequeathed $100,000 outright. But so far as the publishing property is concerned, there was no provision for a Martin or any other Pillsbury issue until the direct line of Boks should wither away. To Mary Louise Bok her father left his residences at Wyncote and at Camden, Me., his gorgeous yacht Lyndonia, the income from his Curtis stock, everything he owned-except...
...Bohemian brewery where they blew froth with 1,000 wedding guests. Popping up among the brides & bridegrooms, club-footed Dr. Goebbels urged them, all at the top of his lungs to increase & multiply, bestowed on each couple "a picture of myself and family" (i. e. self, wife, daughter & stepson). But at sundown there came a sobering voice from the unterrified Throne of St. Peter. The Pope had decided to sign a "concordat" with the Nazis. And even Dr. Goebbels' Press could not disguise the fact that the "concordat" left the Pope unconditional master of his German flock...