Word: scions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organization. James Andrew Moffett, scion of an old family that had made its millions with Rockefeller in oil, proved his love for the New Deal last year by quitting as vice president of Standard Oil of New Jersey to back a more vigorous oil code than President Walter Teagle favored. For that he was rewarded with a job on the Planning & Coordinating Board of the Petroleum Industry, later got another job with Standard Oil of Cali fornia. This July President Roosevelt sat him down to organize the housing drive...
...Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains by cutting the customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed indeed was their prey, Yahya ibn Hamid-ed-Din, Imam Yemen scion of Mohammed's daughter Fatima' and her husband Ali the fourth Caliph. He wanted to treat with Ibn Saud but his eldest son, the Emir el Hadi Mohammed Seif al Islam, suspicious and arrogant as his father but not so wise, is jealous of Ibn Saud's great...
...Nineteen-Niners could forget the bellowing, arm-waving German youth who won his first Harvard fame playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers of Munich, he made the good Harvard clubs. But his Harvard loyalty and his German patriotism split badly in 1915 when he raised his cheerful bellow in Manhattan's Harvard Club in celebration...
...plot, and its ramifications concern for the most part the misunderstandings with her loved one caused by her parents' desire to marry her to a man in her social class. Gene Raymond as Chris Hansen is Joy's hope and pride but the family has chosen Jimmy Wolverton, scion of millions. Time after time in weary succession, Chris finds Joy in the company of Jimmy, only a few hours after she has professed her love for him. This round-robbin reaches a climax at her coming out party when she runs off with the capricious Jimmy after she learns that...
...Carolina" is the story of Will Connelly, scion of a decaying Southern family who strays from the old manse occasionally for an interlude with the daughter of a somewhat socially backward neighbor. Janet, for it is she, displays a combination of charming romanticism and business acumen common to the movies but strangely rare in real life. But do these virtues win her a place in the heart of Will Connelly's mother? They do not. The mother would rather see Will married off to an heiress. Nevertheless, the match is accomplished and Janet and Will add to their romantic success...