Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Jay Gould of Manhattan, a nine-pound daughter. Mrs. Gould (Lorraine Manville) inherited $9,000,000 from her father Thomas Manville, asbestos tycoon. Then she went on the stage, where she met vaudevillian Jay Gould. After their marriage, three years ago, they both left the stage...
...year before Andrew Jackson yielded the presidency to Martin Van Buren. and before California became a state, Ellen Scripps was born. In 1873 she helped her brother found a newspaper which was the first of today's Scripps newspaper syndicate. "Miss Ellen" always considered her wealth a public trust. She harkened to the faintest plea for a sound philanthropical cause. She has endowed hospitals, schools, given parks, community buildings...
...will be born...
...course you're going to be born. What chance has a baby against a full-grown statistic? . . . Well, here you are, and congratulations. . . . It's easier to learn while you're young, and you might as well start out with a few good habits and let the bad ones take care of themselves. Now stop that noise and listen...
...South Dakota-born George Bain Everitt was first accountant, then cloak-and-suitman. He went into the Encyclopedia Brittanica Corp., dropped it for the textile business. In 1921 he went to Montgomery Ward, becoming president in 1926. At forty-three he is representative of Chicago's clan of young, debonair, clubmen-executives...