Word: winfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James Paul Donahue, 45, Manhattan stockbroker, famed roulette player, husband of Mrs. Jessie Woolworth Donahue who with Mrs. Helena W. McCann and Barbara Hutton inherited the estate (some $51,000,000) of the late Frank Winfield Woolworth (5¢ & 10¢ stores); of acute uremia following an attempt at suicide with bichloride of mercury; in Manhattan...
...depressed is the cinema industry and few are the cinema companies which can expect an eager rush of investors to purchase their securities. Keen, swart, mustachioed Mr. Griswold has influential connections and a thorough understanding of how securities are issued, how the press receives them. He, better than Winfield Sheehan, Fox vice president and general manager, and better than any Fox man accustomed to the usual cinema publicity, should be able to launch the forthcoming Fox bonds into a quiet and receptive financial...
Died. J. B. Lazear, 92, oldest West Point alumnus, appointee of Jefferson Davis, student under Superintendent Robert E. Lee and Instructor Winfield Scott, classmate of George Custer; in his Omaha home. Lazear, never graduated, had been for 39 years a bank examiner...
Born. To Mme Paul Dubonnet (Jean Nash) and Paul Dubonnet (aperitif) distiller's scion, divorced husband of Christiane Coty, daughter of Publisher & Perfumer Francois Coty; a daughter (their first, her third child); in Cannes, France. She married successively John Stanley Kirwan of Manhattan, Capt. Winfield Sifton (by whom her eldest, now 18) son of the late Sir Clifford Sifton. British Army Capt. John Victor Nash, Egyptian Prince Mohammed Sabit...
...Professor Lowe,* meteorologist and inventor, built the balloon City of New York, then the largest ever constructed (diameter, 130 ft.), for a flight across the Atlantic. The outbreak of the Civil War upset that plan. Professor Lowe went to Washington to propose to General Winfield Scott the formation of a balloon corps. The General was not impressed, finally lent his ear and his aid only at the personal prompting of President Lincoln...