Curtis Bean Dall
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Curtis appears frequently in newspapers several being brief mentions mostly in relation to an article on Anna or the Roosevelt family, or mentioning some occasional trip or visit he made with his children. In Jul 1934 he is being called "Curtis Dall of Chicago", but by 1936 he is again "Curtis Dall of New York". Several times it's mentioned that he is visiting Governor Herring of Iowa. There is the barest mention that Curtis is suing ''Time Magazine'' for libel in 1935 or '36 but with no details, but then in 1937 we get the details. The [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=12255275&firstvisit=true&src=search¤tResult=25 ''Frederick News-Post'', 6 May 1937, page 5, "Turns Down Verdict Against Curtis Dall"]<sup>[[#Footnotes 4|O]]</sup> | Curtis appears frequently in newspapers several being brief mentions mostly in relation to an article on Anna or the Roosevelt family, or mentioning some occasional trip or visit he made with his children. In Jul 1934 he is being called "Curtis Dall of Chicago", but by 1936 he is again "Curtis Dall of New York". Several times it's mentioned that he is visiting Governor Herring of Iowa. There is the barest mention that Curtis is suing ''Time Magazine'' for libel in 1935 or '36 but with no details, but then in 1937 we get the details. The [http://www.newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=12255275&firstvisit=true&src=search¤tResult=25 ''Frederick News-Post'', 6 May 1937, page 5, "Turns Down Verdict Against Curtis Dall"]<sup>[[#Footnotes 4|O]]</sup> | ||
| − | <table><tr><td>Curtis married secondly in 1938 to Katharine Miller Leas<sup>[[#Footnotes 5|P]]</sup> (1917-2000), they had four surviving children: Katharine, Mary, Stephen and James. From this point, I see no more mentions of Curtis spending time with his two children, and by 1944 his son is being called "Curtis R Boettiger". In the 1930's Curtis Dall "...helped to organize what later became the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company of Houston, one of the largest corporations in the country. But he sold his interest before the company's real growth began."<sup>[[#Footnotes 1|A]][[# | + | <table><tr><td>Curtis married secondly in 1938 to Katharine Miller Leas<sup>[[#Footnotes 5|P]]</sup> (1917-2000), they had four surviving children: Katharine, Mary, Stephen and James. From this point, I see no more mentions of Curtis spending time with his two children, and by 1944 his son is being called "Curtis R Boettiger". In the 1930's Curtis Dall "...helped to organize what later became the Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company of Houston, one of the largest corporations in the country. But he sold his interest before the company's real growth began."<sup>[[#Footnotes 1|A]][[#Footnotes 4|Q]]</sup> He served as a Col in the "Army Air Force" from 1942 until the close of World War II. In the 1940's, he became active in politics, campaigning "...for Strom Thurmond, who was the Presidential nominee of the conservative States' Rights Party".<sup>[[#Footnotes 1|A]]</sup></td><td>http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wjhonson/Dall4.jpg<br>Curtis Dall and Katherine Leas Dec 1938</td></tr></table> |
===Political Ideology=== | ===Political Ideology=== | ||
