Word: mckees
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland organizer of the Metropolitan Street Railway System (New York) and other traction and rail corporations. In 1890 he married Gertrude, sculptress daughter of the second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust Co, New York Transportation Co. In 1909 he organized the first international polo team to beat England, was never beaten while captain. He maintained the largest of U. S. racing stables, championed...
...fame to chance. To build him into a sure-fire vaudeville attraction, they arranged an impression ballyhoo. In a noisy motorcade, gawked at by many a bystander, surrounded by sombreroed U. S. cowmen, preceded by a brass band, he rode to City Hall where Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee of New York declared : "The city is very proud of you!" Into talking-cinema microphones Hero Franklin spoke English: "Give me the good old American girl," and Spanish: "Commend me to the charming senoritas of Spain." Of the Spanish King he said: "He strikes me as just a big kid." Then...
Married. Katherine Stevens Pillsbury of Minneapolis, daughter of potent Flourman Charles Stinson Pillsbury; and Elliott Bates McKee, Paris employe of National City Bank; at the American ProCathedral, Paris, France...
...almost a law that farmers must rise early, work late, receive little return for their labor. If the prediction of Dr. Ralph McKee of Columbia University, made last week before The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, comes true, this routine will be upset...
...McKee, financed by Oxford Paper Co., has worked for four years on new hybrid poplar trees which will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn...