Word: relict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powered with a motor to trundle him to the open air, organized a campaign to put down mosquitoes in Manhattan, pushed the fund-raising campaign that got floodlighting for the Statue of Liberty. At 58 he found time to marry 40-year-old Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, relict of an International Harvester official. He reputedly spent $250,000 on the Washington debut of his stepdaughter in the depth of Depression I. Sickly, he twice explained profitable sales of his Cities Service stock, once during a bear raid, and again to his employes, by intimating in Government investigations and in court...