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...Bruce Blakeley (Harvey Stephens) to support and abet his trying tribe. When his business blessedly fails, he evokes not their sympathy but their ungrateful scorn. Whereupon he does what he has been trying to do all the time, marries his divorcée sweetheart (Katherine Alexander, no kin to Ross), rids himself of his family responsibilities. The party, he tells them in a forceful farewell address, is over...
...National City Bank, Manhattan, now under indictment for tax evasion, and Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co. (a director of Chase National Bank) both resigned last week from the board of American & Foreign Power, great and unprofitable subsidiary of Electric Bond & Share, of which Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell (no kin) was chairman till two weeks...
When the delicate business of rounding up Hoovercrats was begun during the 1928 Presidential campaign, a good bit of work was intrusted to Colonel Horace A. Mann, a bristly-haired Tennessee lawyer (no kin to Pioneer Educator Horace Mann) who had played poker with President Harding...
...President and the new Assistant Secretary of the Navy are fifth cousins. Nicholas Roosevelt (1658-1742) was their common great-great-great-great-grandfather. Henry Roosevelt is a third cousin of Theodore Roosevelt Sr., their common great-great-grandfather having been Jacobus Roosevelt, grandson of Nicholas. Though closer kin to the Republican wing of the family, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt is a Democrat, has been acquainted with the President for years. After three years at the U. S. Naval Academy, he resigned to take a commission in the Marine Corps, saw service in the Philippines, Panama, Cuba, Haiti. During...
...That night 72 Roosevelts & kin dined at the White House. Republican Alice Roosevelt Longworth broke bread with her Democratic fifth cousin. Afterwards the First Lady took five carloads of relatives to the Inaugural Ball. John, her youngest son, escorted Barbara Gushing, sister of his brother James's wife. Around the floor of the Washington Auditorium they shuffled with 6,000 other dancers while 2.000 oldsters watched from boxes. The proceeds went to charity...