Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Mr. Ford proposed to do about it he kept strictly to himself all last week. He was on vacation in his 16-room, copper-roofed "cabin" (cost: $100,000) at the Huron Mountain Club in the wilds of northern Michigan on Lake Superior. Son Edsel was taking his ease at Seal Harbor, Maine. One day the elder Ford was driven in one of his V-8's 35 mi. to Marquette to telephone Edsel. He put the call through from a private room at the Northland Hotel. As he ambled out, newshawks swooped down...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall stands a large Gutzon Borglum bronze of the late John Campbell Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State...
...peak of the 1929 boom Mrs. Greenway was smart enough to sell out many a copper stock she had inherited from her husband, became one of Arizona's wealthiest widows. She kept, however, her Quarter Circle Double X ranch near Williams. Her home is in Tucson, 50 yards down the street from her famed Arizona Inn. That hostelry came into being as a result of her generous interest in disabled veterans. She supplied the government hospital with tools and machinery for making furniture. When a market for the furniture disappeared, she opened the Arizona Inn and furnished it with...
Died. Rodolphe Louis Agassiz, 61, Boston banking & mining tycoon, board chairman of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., onetime international poloist, grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; after long illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass., his home since...
...must get rid of the idea of making money out of money. ... A million dollars in gold by itself will not produce one copper penny. Put a hen on it and it will not hatch. Water it and it will not grow...