Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politico-economic job for the world's leading nations. Economics underlies war. War leaves economic tangles which must be straightened out before society can proceed in peace. The man who spent four months as foreman of the high financial wrecking crew which was the Second Reparations Conference, was Owen D. Young of Van Hornesville...
When, looking five years older, Owen D, Young returned to the U. S., he was as weary as he was modest in asking New York City not to give him a public reception. Also, he was in a hurry to get back to his private life. His son Charles was getting married next day in Cleveland.* He was due after that at Elihu Root's college, Hamilton, to receive an honorary degree. From there he wanted to go and rest at Van Hornesville, which is still his home town in a very real sense. He was born there...
ABRAM· TILYOU AND OWEN·D·YOUNG Rocking Chair Consultants
...activities of a Man-of-the-Year are bound to be manifold. Being board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. might not keep some men very busy, but it keeps Owen D. Young busy because of another quality which made him internationally invaluable at Paris: his sensitiveness to, his prescience of the Future. Never a technician, he is nonetheless obsessed with the idea that some day it may be possible to write a message on a pad at one's desk or bedside and have it instantaneously transmitted to the addressee anywhere on earth. No trained artist...