Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time the Crimean Wrar was going on and it appeared extremely important that the Russians should not take Constantinople. His father, James Lever, had risen from a grocer's apprentice to a retail and finally to a wholesale grocer. The family was solvent rather than affluent and William's boyhood allowance consisted of first one and later two shillings per week. At the age of 19, he entered his father's store, where one of his first duties was the cutting up of long bars of soap. At that time, the soapmaker was never the soap-seller. Manufacturers sent...
Mayor Walker responded extemporaneously. For 40 minutes he talked of his boyhood in the New York slums, of city improvements he had started and hoped to finish, of necessary increases in the city budget to give the People better living conditions. To the committee's request he concluded: "This is the answer: Who could...
...ethic based on predatory opportunism as the highest good emerge in the U. S. from Standard practice? No. Whatever he did actually, spiritually John D. never grew beyond his boyhood beliefs. To propitiate his own Christian beliefs and the public which still embraced them, more than three-fourths of Rockefeller's gifts of $750,000,000 "have been distributed since 1911, the year the public became mathematically conscious of his vast wealth." More than any other's, his money is responsible for Prohibition. To needy institutions went most of these millions. To needy individuals (20,000) went shiny dimes. Once...
...cotton by day, at poker and faro by night. Starting as a farmer boy, he made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar. In 1911, at the age of 56, he died in Paris...
...Kresge's fortune has been variously estimated at from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. Of his 511 stores, 364 are 5? & 10? 147 are 25? to $1. In 1028 they sold $147,465,448 worth of merchandise. Mr. Kresge, however, has not forgotten boyhood days on a Pennsylvania farm when he rose at 4:30 a. m. and worked till dark. His clothing is still inexpensive, and he will search long for a lost golf ball. He is a solid, round, quiet man except when he is aroused against the Big Demon Rum or the Little Devil...