Word: brother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established in 1864, V. M. I. became the finest military school in the U. S. outside of West Point. Its cadets were still chiefly Southerners, although non-Virginians were admitted at a higher tuition. As freshman hazing victims, they got the habit of calling each other Brother Rat.* Last week the Brother Rats overran Lexington, Va., saw two football games, had a whopping good time at the centennial...
...Publicized by Brother Rats John Monks Jr. and Fred Finklehoff in Broadway and cinema successes. Other Brother Rats: Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas, Cinema Hero Jack Holt...
While his black brother is in slavery...
Forty years ago able Will Keith Kellogg quit the business managership of his brother Dr. John Harvey's Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association in Battle Creek, founded the Sanitas Nut Food Do., Ltd., to manufacture the health foods the doctor fed his patients. His little firm, now the Kellogg Company, became the No. 1 U. S. packaged cereal maker, which has factories on three continents and does upwards of $30,000,000 business every year. In all that time gloomy, barrel-tested, bald Will Keith has kept a mighty grip on his firm's affairs. When he appointed...
...executive committee and a director of American Smelting and Refining Co., of which his father is president, a director of General Cable Corp., trustee of a $1,000,000 trust fund, George Guggenheim suffered from a nervous disorder, had recently tried to slash his wrists. When his brother, John Simon, died in 1922 of mastoiditis, his parents established in his memory the famed Guggenheim Foundation (for international study), now capitalized...