Word: siring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Veblenian titles, The Engineers and the Price System, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Theory of the Leisure Class, will recall to the initiated that Thorstein Veblen was the mental sire of many a U.S. intellectual who grew up to be a technocrat. The initiated will remember, too, that Veblen has been praised and damned as the prophet of the New Deal. His influence on Rexford Guy Tugwell, George Soule, Stuart Chase and other New Deal economists has been profound. Anti-New Dealer Edgar M. Queeny (The Spirit of Enterprise), president of the Monsanto Chemical Co., has even gone...
...owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy cattle at his Fishkill, N.Y. farm brought a total of $15,598-only half again as much as he had paid for the sire 25 years...
...Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I - along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after...
Over them all hovered the spirit of Hambletonian, progenitor of champions. Never a flashy winner, Hambletonian (1849-76) broke no records. But his blazing spirit and his success as a sire made him a harness immortal. Ninety-five per cent of top trotters today trace their blood to him through at least one line. Standard breds, from Hambletonian down, are still the only purely U.S. contribution to the sporting horse, and to a sport where age as well as youth is served...
...Wood. Fifty-three-year-old Minister of Aircraft Production Sir Stafford Cripps has one of the most aristocratic backgrounds of any English leftist. The man who urged the British to "cut down the decaying wood of the House of Lords before it falls upon us" is descended from Sire Crispe de Stanlake, a 13th-century Buckinghamshire squire, Sir Stafford's father and two uncles were peers (Parmoor, Passfield, Courtney). His brother, Freddie, married the Duchess of Westminster...