Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...1341n 1933, Charles's grandson, Charles 2nd, was kidnaped, held for 17 days on a South Dakota ranch, was ransomed...
John Jacob Astor III, globular 35-year-old great-great-grandson of the original, was recuperating on his New Jersey estate from a case of measles...
William C. Ford, grandson of Henry, was elected a director of the Ford Motor Co., eight months before he would graduate from Yale...
...Inventor. PhotoMetric is the product of more than two years (and $500,000 worth) of research by Henry Booth, boss of Manhattan's Amalgamated Textiles Ltd., one of the biggest U.S. jobbers of fine woolens, and its subsidiary, Bennett, Inc. (eleven U.S. stores). Booth, a grandson of England's famed Salvation Army Founder William Booth, came to the U.S. at 16, worked up in the textile jobbing field. In the depression '30s he merged five jobbers to form Amalgamated, which later became U.S. distributor for Forstmann Woolen Co. and more than 20 top British mills...
...London, the seventh Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the hawk-nosed original, dutifully opened an exhibition of modern sculpture with an appropriate speech, but midway raised his own gallinaceous nose and broke out: "And now about modern sculpture-I really cannot make out what it is all about...