Word: utilitycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Henry Ford II, 31, president of the Ford Motor Co. (and grandson of the founder), and Anne McDonnell Ford, 30, granddaughter of Utilitycoon Thomas E. Murray: their third child, first son; in Detroit. Weight...
Because the last remnants of the estate of Samuel Insull, farthings-to-millions Midwest utilitycoon of the '20s, were cluttering up the basement of a La Salle Street office building, a Chicago judge ordered the old bonds, canceled debentures, stock certificates, vouchers, receipts, and canceled checks (about 50,000 papers weighing three tons) sold as scrap paper at public auction. Estimated scrap value...
Hearstlings Walter Winchell and Cholly Knickerbocker broke the news: "Her Grace" was about to remarry. The supposed groom-to-be: Charles Andrews Munroe, 71, retired midwest utilitycoon and international-setter. Almost immediately the item withered. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Son Cornelius Jr., quoted by the World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...
Congressman Augustus W. Bennett of New York, back from Washington with his wife & three children, lacked the heart to evict the tenants to whom he had sublet, instead moved in with a friend. The hardship was endurable: in Utilitycoon John Wilkie's home, the Bennetts got "eleven or twelve" spare rooms...
...Also publisher in Illinois of the Aurora Beacon-News, Elgin Courier-News, Joliet Herald News, Springfield Illinois State Journal; for six terms (1911-23) an Illinois GOP Congressman, long a utilitycoon...