Word: clan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ancestors & Integrity. To Charles Francis Adams, banker, yachtsman, ex-Secretary of the Navy and the reigning patriarch of the Adams clan, these reminders of the past were not so much landmarks as part & parcel of daily life. Like J. P. Marquand's George Apley, he was neither insensible to change, nor intolerant of it. But nothing had ever moved him to abandon the manners & morals of his New England ancestors-who include two Presidents (John and John Quincy), a famous ambassador (Charles Francis I), authors (Henry and Brooks), bankers, lawyers and scholars...
...occasion so auspicious perforce the dusty bones of the Bard of Avon must needs be rattled to sing the praises of the Crimson Clan. So with pro-foundest apologies and a low waist bow, let the loud Alarums sound...
...Harlows, and witches, Salem-style perchance, swish about by broommobile. So 'tis meet that Macbeth's witches come down Cambridge way. Three eerie figures meet in the middle of the Harvard camp . . . egad again? Yard. Zounds! 'Tis Kopp, Margarita and Jacunski, magicians all, of the Crimson Clan, meet to devise a potent potion not to the liking of McLaughry...
Share the Land. Despite inheritance taxes, 1,800 Argentine families still own an area greater than England, Belgium and The Netherlands together. One clan, the Unzués, holds 1,000,000 acres in the single, fertile province of Buenos Aires...
First Dick Mellon consolidated the Mellon Indemnity Corp. and General Reinsurance Corp. of New York to centralize the Mellon insurance interests. Then he set up T. Mellon & Sons, top policy group for all the Mellon clan. Actually it was a third generation team to coordinate and plan family financial strategy, like the first generation team of T. Mellon & Sons (Judge Thomas Mellon and Sons Thomas and James) which founded the Mellon dynasty...