Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a few years at his father's forge. Preserved Fish III shipped to the Pacific on a whaler, at 21 became its captain. Shrewd, he recognized a fortune lay in selling whale oil, not in getting it. He prospered as a merchant in New Bedford, had a political squabble, sold his property cheap, settled in New York. At the height of his business career he was one of the 28 brokers of the New York Exchange Board which later became the New York Stock Exchange. He controlled a potent shipping firm of Fish & Grinnell which had its beginnings...
...Adams House house committee have yet to be elected. One of these officers is to be a Sophomore; the other a Junior. Nominees for the Sophomore office are: A. H. Healey; C. V. Nevin; R. F. Estes; Junior nominees are: H. A. Metz and A. B. Gardiner III...
...Nice, the U. S. consul asked French police to protect Gibson Fahnestock Jr., rich, U. S. .socialite on whose yacht Shenandoah III several members of the Chinese crew had started a fight. Shenandoah III is elaborately fitted out with Oriental antiques, has a great staring eye painted on her bow. Mr. & Mrs. Fahnestock and four children are world-cruising on it. Once before, at Singapore last December, the Chinese crew mutinied, knocked down the captain and Owner Fahnestock...
...III reveals the whole bloody business in the third floor study. It seems that Mr. Blake, a ruthless financier, is plotting to ruin a South American republic. Ample motive is represented for agents of the threatened nation wishing to kill Banker Blake. Then the murderer walks in, does the deed?not for financial or patriotic reasons...
...Louis Balbis de Berton de Crillon (1543-1615) French soldier, called by Henry IV "the bravest of the brave." He served under Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX as well as Henrys III and IV. He was not present at and strongly condemned the massacre of the Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (1572), which was instigated by King Charles's mother, Catherine de' Medici. The famed Paris hotel on La Place de la Concorde was named for him. Bertrand Du Guesclin (1320 -1380), constable of France, was the most famed French warrior...