Word: plowboy
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...Plowboy Owen D. Young, now Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, proved unable or unwilling to duplicate the blooded, Bourbon rôle of aloofness played, last week, by the "last of the J. P. Morgans." As one who had had a leading part in drafting the original Dawes Plan, Tycoon Young began to show pique when Dr. Schacht neared the climax of his argument as to why Germany must not pay all she owes. A passing reference made by Berlin's Iron Man to the fact that Germany has met all her Dawes payments...
...became Chairman of General Electric at 47, was merely counsel for General Electric at 39, probably chafes at the knowledge he was as good a "Young Man" as Parker Gilbert at 32, but held down by old fogies. John Pierpont Morgan is 61, never had to climb, like onetime plowboy Young...
...General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
...Legend tells that hot, sweating Plowboy Young was so impressed one summer day by the cool nonchalance of attorneys arguing in the county court house that he instantly resolved to turn from clods and dirt...