Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great-grandfather out of fur trading with the Indians and Manhattan real estate; fortune battened down by grandfather and father upon acres of New York tenements bitterly known as "Astor Flats"; fortune tarnished when half the family moved to England because the U.S. was not "a fit country for gentlemen to live...
While talking thaw, the face that Russia presented to the world last week was that of granitic Marshal Rodion Malinovsky brushing off U.S. military capabilities with the scornful jest: "Gentlemen, your arms are too short." The image presented by the free world was that of John Foster Dulles flying from capital to European capital to reconcile overpublicized differences in coping with the Soviet threat to West Berlin...
Governor Kuroda explained that Yasokyo (Jesus religion) was frowned on by the Mikado. Undeterred, Clark lined up his 16 students and announced firmly: "It is my intention to awake a lofty ambition in you, and to turn you into gentlemen and Christians, so that you may control your appetites and passions and thus conquer the sin of self." The Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question...
...Clark, who ended the war as a colonel with the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers, would tell his awed audience: "At the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on Sept. 1, 1862, I was surrounded by Confederates and was called on to surrender. Bullets whistled overhead; my uniform was torn to pieces. Gentlemen, an American never surrenders. But I managed to retire, and returned to the Union forces unharmed." When the fiery Clark left for Massachusetts, he gave his students a ringing injunction: "Boys, be ambitious...
...build a power plant in Canada a few years later. By mergers and purchases, he shortly controlled a utilities complex in which $2 billion was invested. By 1925 he was so rich that when he decided to refinance a small steelmaker called Trumbull Steel Co., he could say: "Gentlemen, if you have any doubt about my ability to underwrite the financing, just call the Cleveland Trust Co. and ask whether my check for $20 million will be honored." Five years later, with Trumbull and other small companies as a base, he founded Republic Steel Corp. as the nation...