Word: swope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principle, four-speed transmission, hydraulic boosted brakes, extra rigid bodies. Big and solid and sleek, a Stutz car carries Stutz Associate Schwab. Other names for Stutz to conjure with: William E. Dodge Stokes and Frederic de Peyster, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Witherbee Black. Paul Whiteman and Herbert Bayard Swope. Cardinal Dougherty of Phila- delphia wears his red biretta in a Stutz...
Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime executive editor of the late, muzzle-hating New York World, startled newsmen by his rigorous advocacy of wartime censorship and propaganda. He would put all publications under Federal license with a Secretary of Information in the President's Cabinet. Said...
...McClintock who died in 1870, was pastor at the Wendels' church and in his biography are two letters to Old J. D. Wendel. Each of eleven Wendels (the first in 1896) had $10,000 memorials established for them at Drew. And the only Wendel sister ever to marry (Rebecca Swope) was married by a Drew President. Originally a theological seminary founded by Daniel Drew of financial infamy. Drew recently became a university as result of a paltry $1,500,000 bequest. With $5,000,000 or so from the last Wendel, it may begin to make its title a fact...
...will, filed during the week, did not even mention fat Tobey Wendel. The family fortune, estimated at $100,000,000, gave bequests to family friends and retainers, to charities and religious bodies, following closely the will of Miss Ella's sister, Mrs. Rebecca A. D. Wendel Swope, who died last summer (TIME, Aug. 4). Flower Hospital received its expected share (but its officials scouted the leg-setting story); and the famed old Wendel house went to Drew Theological Seminary, whose onetime president, Dr. Tipple, was an old family friend...
...corner (last appraised at $3,684,000). Friends said her seclusion was voluntary, her life happy. She and her sisters Augusta, Josephine, Mary, Georgiana were dominated, kept from marrying by Brother John Gottlieb Wendel III. Rebecca, a sixth sister, eluded his tyranny, married Professor Luther A. Swope. But when Professor Swope died she returned to hermitage with her sisters. Last year she died (TIME, Aug. 4) and her will left most of the fortune, after Sister Ella's death, to charities and religious bodies...