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...last week's news was an oil name more famed than any of those indicted by the Government-Doheny. Up from the presidency of Petroleum Securities Corp. to the chairman's seat, which has been vacant since her husband died last year, moved the relict of Edward Laurence Doheny. As all oil men know, dark-haired, 6-year-old Mrs. Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny can do business with the best of them. Her company was her husband's personal basket, founded long before the top blew off the Naval oil lease of Elk Hills. Today...
None of these activities, however, has made her rich, and Louis Howe left "less than $20,000." Last week President Roosevelt recompensed his most devoted and intimate friend's relict for virtual widowhood during her husband's later life by appointing her acting postmaster of Fall River, at $4,000 per year...
...hero's descendants also buried there and the dates of his victories. Last week news of the North Carolina venture made Pere-Lachaise keepers scoff anew at a chestnut which had been popping fitfully for years. At No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, the Duchess of Elchingen, relict of a Michel Ney who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's great ancestor was buried in the U. S. In Charlotte Davidson College librarians fingered the books in which North Carolina's mysterious exile had corrected accounts of the life of the Marshal of France a century...
Died. Julia Field, 80, relict of Poet Eugene Field; of heart attack; in her Heafford Junction, Wis. home which two weeks ago was threatened by mortgage foreclosure, saved when Field's college fraternity raised $3,000 (TIME, June...
...great that he was in a fair way to wrest Irish Home Rule from an unwilling England. Then the scandal of his liaison with pretty Kitty O'Shea ruined his political career, Ireland relapsed into its normal strife, and Home Rule was set back two generations. Margaret Leamy, relict of one of Charles Stewart Parnell's few henchmen who stuck by him after his disaster, has recorded her memories of those gloomily exciting days. Her book is written with a kind of breathless broguishness that may make Irish hearts thump. To others it will be no more exciting...