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...calling their loans. Indeed, with money-lending what it is today, the bankers are only too glad to accommodate him. Behind his much-publicized, diligent playing with yachts and bridge hands, Mr. Vanderbilt is a quiet-loving, diligent businessman who applies his able mind to the affairs of his clan's biggest heritage, the New York Central Lines. Each winter business day he conscientiously posts himself at his executive desk in a gilt-topped tower straddling Park Avenue. And while Mr. Jones worries about Mr. Vanderbilt's problems, Mr. Vanderbilt occasionally worries about Mr. Jones...
...canny, close-knit, tight-lipped clan are the Browns but Depression in the paper & pulp industry was too much for even them. Though they carefully kept all common stock within the family, both preferred stock and bonds were sold to the public. Preferred dividends were stopped in 1931 but despite a series of deficits footing up to more than $14,000,000 in four years, bond interest was paid promptly. Last week, however, with "deepest regret," the Browns announced that they would have to default their obligations. They admitted that business was better in the first half of this year...
...petty North Indian rajah, clan-named Gautama, Buddha was born near the middle of the Sixth Century B. C., left home at 29, sat six years under a Bo tree, died...
Slowly through the 549 pages of The Furys James Hanley reveals his characters, lets their actions speak for them, presents accelerating events through the eyes of one after another, introduces a mass of realistic detail. The first of three novels dealing with the wild Fury clan, The Furys begins with the sort of situation on which most novels end. is distinguished by its sustained intensity, its brilliant characterization of Mrs. Fury, its brisk, unadorned, effective prose style, its few powerful, panoramic scenes of violence and disorder during the strike. Although readers may be repelled by the detachment of James Hanley...
Most remarkable feature of Crow society was its system of clans or families. Children of a family all took their mother's clan name, and the clan included those related by blood on the mother's side as well as others merely considered kin. A man could never belong to the same clan as his children, since normal marriages could take place only between different clans. From Shot-in-the-Arm, Ethnologist Lowie learned that clans provided groupings for competitive entertainment, heard about war games between the Whistling Waters and Greasy Mouths. Clansman fought for clansman, avenged...