Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Help from Aunt Janes. Among the Central's widely held stock, Young's Alleghany block was bigger than anyone else's (even Central's Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt, great-grandson of the Commodore, held only about 60,000 shares). And Bob Young was a specialist in rallying small stockholders behind him ("Aunt Janes," he calls them). To the Aunt Janes-and the Uncle Jims-tired of being bumped around in rattletrap coaches, Bob Young appeared to be a streamlined Galahad on wheels. To fellow railroad men, whom he has unceasingly denounced in magazine articles, full...
When Bob Young starts his improvement, probably by trying to get his men elected to Central's board of directors, he will run smack up against Board Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt and Union Pacific, which owns 160,000 shares of Central. A great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Central's founder, Chairman Vanderbilt holds only some 65,000 shares. Young will be in for a scrap. But he is no man to dodge one. Wall Streeters watched with smiles of anticipation. It looked as if Central would soon be in the hottest fight since railroaders Jim Fisk...
...also the grandson of Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, grandnephew of Critic Matthew Arnold, nephew of Novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward, son of Biographer Leonard Huxley...
...Treasury; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. After making a fortune in real estate, he turned to politics, looked back upon his years of service as part payment to the "country in which it is possible for the son of a poor immigrant to become an ambassador, his grandson a Cabinet officer and his great-granddaughter introduced to society in the White House...
...Portland, Maine, police finally restored to his family a wandering little window-shopper who had somehow lost his bearings: nine-year-old Robert E. Peary III, exploratory grandson of the late Arctic explorer...