Word: seward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found only humble Aleuts and thick-furred sea otters. By 1801, the Aleuts had been decimated by harsh servitude and the animals virtually wiped out by overhunting. In 1867, Russia decided to sell Alaska in order to raise funds for wars with England. To Secretary of State William H. Seward, the land seemed a steal at $7.2 million, or 2¢ per acre. To most Americans, a few "wretched fish" could not justify
Mellon's adopted sons, Richard and Seward, work in T. Mellon & Sons, a family business, but have shown little of his devotion to rule-a situation that did not seem to bother their father. "You do not shove these rising generations around," he once said. "A man cannot go to his son and say, as my father said to me, 'You're going into this organization.' The best you can do with the new young, while they are making up their minds, is to keep them out of trouble." Those who knew him were not surprised...
With eyes strained seward he apologizes