Word: sweringen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surviving "O. P." and "M. J." Van Sweringen is another Van Sweringen who is known in Cleveland as the "forgotten brother"-Herbert C. Van Sweringen...
Brother Mantis James Van Sweringen, who died last year, left only...
...never associated with his younger brothers except in their early real-estate days. The only member of a family of five children who ever married, he continued in real estate until 1925, when he retired. The two spinster Van Sweringen sisters, who live together in the house their brothers originally built in their swank Shaker Heights development, were taken care of in "O. P.'s" will...
...real heirs of the Van Sweringen empire were the two septuagenarian Midwest industrialists who backed the brothers last year when they bought back control of their vast rail and real-estate properties at public auction in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935). These backers were George Alexander Ball, 74, Muncie (Ind.) fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called...
...most spectacular comeback of their generation. Under the arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...