Word: clansmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balance for Baron. At the opening of the novel in 1906, the older Barons are tired of carrying on the business and the company is about to be sold to a competitor. Impetuous young Stuart Baron, who has been managing the mills, maneuvers the elder clansmen into agreeing to sell to the highest bidder, then makes the highest bid himself. The elders agree to the coup, provided he will take two cousins into the business as balance wheels. The three of them-headstrong Stuart, flamboyant Raoul, a promoter and organizer, and cautious David, a slick man with figures-proceed...