Word: pocantico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis point in the 1929 stock-market panic, the late great John D. Rockefeller Sr., then 90, issued a calm statement from his home at Pocantico Hills on the Hudson: "My son and I are buying sound common stocks." Some Wall Street cynics thought his real interest in the plunging market was to cover up a big short position, but John D.'s millions induced buying confidence that stemmed the terrible tide for one day. Last week the tickers clicked out a statement that sounded like old John D. talking backwards: his son was selling $25,000,000 worth...
...Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived so happily ... for nearly 50 years...
...MATTHEW ROCKEFELLER Pocantico Hill Kinderhook...