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Grocer-Senator. Born 61 years ago in Providence, R. I., Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller has known great wealth and its power all her life. Her father, the late Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, onetime grocer, was probably the richest man ever to enter the U. S. Senate. When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions. But Nelson Aldrich was also one of the most potent men ever to enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically...
...these years his daughter had to listen to almost continuous public attacks on the way her father made his money, his love of display, his "secret government" of the U. S. It gave her a lifelong horror of publicity and all forms of ostentation. In 1901 Abby Aldrich married a young man who thought the same way about great wealth for the same reasons. His name was John D. Rockefeller...
...Senator Aldrich bought many an expensive picture in his lifetime. The senior Rockefeller, though never a great collector, felt impelled from time to time to acquire extremely expensive pieces of Oriental art. The junior Rockefeller has limited his own artistic purchases to fine tapestries and sculpture, possibly because the collecting of paintings is so common with the kind of rich man that he dislikes most...
Without for an instant relaxing her interest in the Girl Scouts, in musical scholarships, hospitals, asylums, and all her other welldoing, Mrs. Rockefeller set aside a certain amount of her own Aldrich money for art. As a collector's budget, it was no vast sum. All the pictures that she has since given to the Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government...
...only lineup change involves George Aldrich, who created a sensation by using his fists on a combative Newion High opponent. Aldrich displaces Carlie Houghion of left defense...