Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front. He fought with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, fled to Constantinople after the White Russian collapse. While hiding in a coal bunker he found a wad of Imperial Russian banknotes which would have made him rich a few years before but were then worthless. In Turkey, the young scientist worked for a while as a woodchopper in the Sultan's forest, was toting bricks on a construction job when a letter circuitously and providentially arrived offering him a place on the staff of Yerkes Observatory...
...president, Dr. George Barton Cutten. President Cutten said: "TIME Magazine has called me 'the most reactionary college president in America.' Well, I have good company. I think God is reactionary, doing the things the same as he did 20,000 years ago. ... I suppose the young people today say He hasn't an open mind because He doesn't do things in a modern way. If He did, I suppose they would have girl babies born with hairline eyebrows, purple lips and green fingernails, and I don't know what color toenails; but they...
...died. He transferred control to a new philanthropic trust, the George & Frances Ball Foundation, then went hunting for buyers. He found them two years ago in a trio so unknown that no one laughed when they referred to themselves as "babes in the woods." The three: Brokers Robert R. Young and Frank B. Kolbe and a Woolworth company heir, Allan P. Kirby. Mr. Ball sold them 1,933,810 shares (43%) of the common stock in Alleghany Corp., the holding company just below Midamerica. This stock had cost Mr. Ball less than $270,000. He sold...
Recession intervened, and Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., exercising its rights as trustee for Alleghany's bondholders, blocked Robert Young's plans for reorganizing the Van Sweringen holding companies. Although hardly a week passed without spectacular attacks from Financier Young, Guaranty gradually squeezed him out of practically all say in the management of the railroads...
Last week these adventures of a railroad empire came to a terse conclusion. Thomas H. Jones, lawyer of the George & Frances Ball Foundation, called Cleveland newsmen by long distance from Muncie and announced: "Messrs. Robert R. Young and Allan P. Kirby and their associates have surrendered to the foundation the 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock held as collateral for their $2,375,000 note, thus revesting to the foundation ownership of such stock." Muncie's spare, bald, 76-year-old George A. Ball was once again master of the 23,000 miles of right...