Word: son
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion be formed in the light of past experience rather than in an atmosphere of excitement and sentimental and educational appeals. Don't let our vast wealth and the lives of our young men be the cat's paw of European diplomatic greed and animosities. Many a mother's son closed his eyes in agony, consoled only by the thought that he gave his young life in "the War to end Wars." Thomas Dorgan
...impetuous, romantic rise from the little West Kansas town where he was raised, son of a crack Union Pacific railroad engineer, Walter Chrysler had done something more than pull himself up by his bootstraps. Like most other successful U. S. businessmen he had picked his subordinates with unerring eye. And while he was sick and out of the game, no Chrysler stockholder suffered...
...years ago he used to spend some of his evenings in the machine-shop in his basement, just tinkering, but lately he has had no time for that and it has been taken over by his 16-year-old son Richard. Last summer Richard built himself a one-lung automobile in the basement shop. Said his father, with the characteristic wrinkled grin that makes his eyes disappear: "A good mechanic's job-and I didn't help him." His other son, Robert, 27, is a Chrysler research engineer. No seeker for a college degree, he went to work...
Politically cynical ("Share the wealth? A very amusing proposal"), he got that way either by being the son of a Boston politician (Democratic Mayor) or by amassing a fortune before he was 30, after dropping out of Harvard in his second year...
...that he has built four, that at the height of his operations he was good for $20,000,000 personal credit; he is reported to have refused $50,000,000 for his Chicago holdings, and to have been one of the few to liquidate before the 1929 crash; his son, Norman Prince (strictly forbidden to fly by F. H.) was a leader in organizing the famed Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in action; in 1934, he bought the big sloop Weetamoe for the America's Cup defense, was soundly beaten by both Yankee and Rainbow; besides a fox-hunting estate...