Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared one of the U.S.'s wealthiest citizens. "I happen to have been left a great deal of money [about $150,000,000]. I don't know what is going to happen to it, and I don't give a damn." Speaking was Publisher Marshall Field III, who made the remarks as he talked hopefully of great social reforms after the war. Next day he looked at his words in cold newspaper type, decided to clear up a point. He would be "willing to risk the fortune in some new order," he explained, but: "Naturally I will...
...defense orders-some 75% of its current work. It was turning out huge harbor defense nets, degaussing cable, wiring for battleships and cantonments, signal wire, anchor cables for captive balloons, instrument parts. At the dinner were three great grandsons of John Roebling-Joseph M. and Major Ferdinand W. Roebling III, both vice presidents, and Charles Roebling Tyson, secretary-treasurer. The Roebling family still owns all but a few shares of Roebling stock...
John Bowditch III '38, Hollis 7, was Managing Editor of the CRIMSON, a member of the Tercentary Committee, and Second Marshall of his class...
During the Crimean War, the royal Britons visited their French ally, Napoleon III. "When Bertie knelt, in kilts, before the tomb of Napoleon I, the Parisian sky produced an authentic clap of thunder, and all the French generals burst into tears." It was the beginning of a life-long love for Bertie, but not for his father. Napoleon III "was simply not a respectable ally." For one thing, there had been that "rather dreadful féte champétre . . . when the Emperor disappeared all evening with Madame Castiglione in the shrubbery, and the Empress fainted with mortification...
...sees and knows this, and that it is one of his rewards." But "like a mayfly the Prince of Wales danced idly in the sun." He also danced under the gas lights of questionable houses in Second Empire Paris, until Bismarck, having discovered the riddle of Napoleon III (he was "the sphinx without a secret"), destroyed France at Sedan and created the Second Reich at Versailles. Then "from these flames there stepped a slightly discredited phoenix, the portentous phenomenon of modern Europe...