Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Morrison Flagler, son of an impoverished Presbyterian minister in upstate New York, organized Standard Oil Co., left John D. Rockefeller to run it and retired to Florida in 1883 with ever mounting millions in profits. These he proceeded to invest in building Florida hotels (one with 13 miles of corridors), towns, railroads. One of his dreams was to connect Key West with the mainland. He declared he would die in peace once his railroad stretched over the 140 miles of coral reefs to the most southerly U. S. city. Seven years, some 200 lives...
...diagnostic operation which disclosed "abdominal Hodgkins disease," probably some form of infection with the appearance of tumor, whose rarity baffled Johns Hopkins' surgeons, whose seriousness surprised his friends; in Baltimore. His second marriage, in 1916, was to the widow of Standard Oil's late great Henry M. Flagler. She died eight months after marrying Mr. Bingham, left him $5,000,000. Next year he purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, became famed as one of the South's great newspaper proprietors...
...management boards as imposing a collection of Social Register names as ever decorated the Metropolitan Opera lists. In 1930 Mrs. Harriman dropped put (reason: Depression) and the association was reorganized under the presidency of Mrs. Mary Gary, socialite, music-loving daughter of music-loving Harry Harkness Flagler. By last week, when the National Orchestral Association gave its first concert of the new training season, it had won its place as a unique organization, invaluable to U. S. music...
...East Side as a baby, Composer Gruenberg, 54. is dreamy, soft-voiced, soft-eyed. He studied piano under Ferruccio Busoni, became dissatisfied even though his teacher said he had "God-graced hands." Gruenberg's early, romantic Hill of Dreams won a $1,000 prize given by Harry Harkness Flagler for the New York Symphony. He turned to syncopated dissonances in The Daniel Jazz and Jazz Suite. But the rewards of modern composers-$100 or so for an occasional orchestra or opera performance-are not great. Unlike Deems Taylor, who earns money by writing and radio work, unlike John Alden...
Predecessor and unconscious mentor of most of the 19th-Century industrial titans, Mr. Rockefeller outlived them all. Hill. Harriman, Morgan, Frick, Carnegie carved their careers in the middle Rockefeller years. Mr. Rockefeller never heard of Henry Ford until his late 60s. The great group of Rockefeller partners and executives-Flagler, Rogers, Andrews, Brewster, Pratt, Archbold, Bedford, Moffett- has been gone for years.* But at no time by either word or gesture did Rockefeller ever indicate any regret for anything he ever did. Apparently there was a sharp and impenetrable wall between his conceptions of business and private morality...