Word: twin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steam Yacht ready for launching" said the telegram received in Cincinnati by Julius Fleishmann, yeast heir. It meant that his twin-screw, clipper stem, Diesel yacht, with its accommodations for 14 guests, its lockers holding food enough for eight months at sea, its living room, smoking room, dining room, its owner's private gymnasium, lounge room, and dressing room, its cold storage plant, its shining mahogany and brass, was standing at the head of a slide in Manhattan, worth $625,000. Mrs. Fleishmann christened...
...eighteenth paper he had purchased since he became editor and part owner of the Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette in 1906. Mergers and one sale (Twin City Sentinel), Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23, 1926) reduced the number of his newspapers to thirteen. He was not in a position to challenge the Hearst or Scripps-Howard chains, *but he had become a dominant influence in upstate New York, an unobtrusive god in a territory of more than 5,000,000 citizens. He is now a man of wealth, insured for $1,000,000, with properties for which he holds...
...mothers of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and his half brother, Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain, both died in childbirth.* Last week this fact was thought to account for the extraordinary warmth and fervor with which the Minister of Health addressed the House of Commons on the twin themes of maternal mortality and midwifery...
Steaming in through San Francisco's Golden Gate, last week, came the President McKinley, bearing a petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two. Resting an elbow on the ship's rail and cuddling her small chin in a pensive palm, she gazed at Las Papas, those twin, majestic mountains called "The Breasts." Then, having admired the view, Fraulein Clarenore Stinnes coolly turned to confront excited reporters...
...addition to giving the money for the chapel, Princeton's friends had raised $200,000 to pay for a man to go with it. The friends in this case were the mem bers of the family of twin brothers, now dead, who were graduated from Princeton in 1877, Judge Walter Lloyd-Smith and the Rev. Wilton Merle-Smith. The man was Dr. Robert Russell Wicks, intelligent, eloquent Congregationalist lately of Holyoke, Mass. For him the new office of Dean of the Chapel was created. Hitherto Princeton, traditionally Presbyterian, has had no official pastor...