Word: vesteys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rome is strong, the Catholics are also building a mighty cathedral. But last week Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus David's cathedral seemed a little in the lead. To it Sir Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 68, and his brother, William Vestey, Baron Vestey, 75, promised ?220,000 ($1,200,000) to build a vast central tower 327 ft. high in memory of their parents...
Born in Liverpool, the Vesteys rank with Swift, Armour and Wilson in the world's meat trade. When British retailers would not buy frozen meat 25 years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world...