Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Foshay, born in Ossining, N. Y., started out to be an artist. But his father's business failure put an end to his art courses at Columbia University.* For four years he worked with the New York Central Railroad Co., later he joined Electric Bond & Share Co. His career, however, did not start until the day he walked into Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities...
When General Lafayette romantically left France to help liberate the American colonies he brought with him a young man, Joseph Fouche, whose father was chief of police under Napoleon. The descendant of that young man is the Wilbur Burton Foshay who last week calmly agreed to the receivership of all his properties...
About to leave for Cuba as U. S. Ambassador, Harry Frank Guggenheim went and had a long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund...
...confused with his son John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, famed biochemist of Cambridge University, twice-wounded onetime member of the Black Watch, who, like his father, observes the subtle linkage between science, philosophy, ethics, religion...
...grandfather was a black chief. His father was a black chef. At their deaths he was raised by his chocolate-brown mother who once slaved in Kentucky's blue grass. She taught small Taylor to knock wood. But one thing she did not teach...