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...Jane Wilson Du Mont, 29, went into Probate Court and was declared a legal widow, entitled to one-third of the real and personal property in the estate under Illinois law. Mother Du Mont appealed, denying the validity of her son's 1932 hasty marriage in Crown Point, Ind., part of the record of which had been lost...
Indianapolis, Ind...
...Chesapeake Corp. Proxies prosaically were cast to elect as directors the new controlling interests in Alleghany Corp. At the same time in Manhattan, Stockbrokers Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe were sitting down with George A. Ball to complete the transaction by which the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar manufacturer stepped down as the dominant figure in the Van Sweringen picture (TIME...
Every alert newshawk knew that George Alexander Ball, the 74-year-old Muncie, Ind. fruit-jar maker, had been listening attentively to offers for the stocks by which he controlled the $3,000,000,000 Van Sweringen rail and real-estate empire (TIME, April 19). They knew, too, how for a mere $3,121,000 old Mr. Ball and his friend George A. Tomlinson, the Great Lakes ship operator, had bought that control from a Morgan banking group at the most spectacular auction in Wall Street history; how Mr. Ball had expected the Vans to make a comeback...
This was momentous because what the Balls are to Muncie, Ind., the Meier and Frank families are to Portland. The first Meier was named Aaron, a German-Jewish immigrant who followed homesteaders to the Northwest, set up a store for prospectors in the clearing called Portland where the Willamette River runs into the mighty Columbia. The first Frank, Sigmund, joined Meier in partnership and married his daughter. By 1883, when the Northern Pacific came through, they were prosperous. After that, as Portland's deep draft harbor thrived and the cool city grew around it, the Meiers and Franks became...