Word: dynasticism
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Many a U. S. citizen, little acquainted with the individuals who head U. S. corporations, has at least long known that venerable HALEY FISKE was president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, however, Mr. Fiske died (TIME, March 11). Now the U. S. citizen, asked to name Metropolitan'...
What was more, the stock was kept so much at home in this old Presbyterian family that until recently Phelps Dodge has remained practically a closed corporation. Few copper stocks have had the advantage of such respectable and exclusive upbringing. Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (Princeton classmate of Woodrow Wilson), was interested...
Eight years later Father William died. In the hands of executors he left a sealed envelope. It was solemnly torn open. Inside was the name of Brother Bramwell, nominated General of the world-wide tambourine Army in dynastic succession to Father William.
Having defeated Brother Bramwell's effort to depose her, Aunt Evangeline suddenly took the offensive. She led a movement to lop away Brother Bramwell's autocratic power, and make the office of generalissimo hereafter elective rather than dynastic. Invoking the memory of Father William, Brother Bramwell rejected all such proposals...
In Egypt. Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, 4,800 years ago was the first great Pharaoh of Egypt. Harvard men under Dr. George A. Reisner have put together much history of his line. His father was Snefru, his mother Hetep-Heres I. Cheops loved her greatly. When her first...