Word: sons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cutten, born the son of a sea captain in Nova Scotia, is a onetime Baptist minister and Prohibitionist. For fun, he collects antique spoons. When he arrived at Colgate to become its president in 1922, he said : "The word democracy has become a fetish in America. . . . The rule (in government) must be by the aristocracy...
...Jacob Ruppert, aged 13, was owner, manager, captain and second baseman of a baseball club. Son of a well-to-do Manhattan brewer with a home on Fifth Avenue, he made his players clean the cages of his private menagerie before he would bring the bat and ball down to the vacant lot where they played. He fired any player who struck out. For young Jake could not bear to see his team lose...
George A. Hormel was an industrial nonconformist. Practically ostracized industrially by other meat packers for stumping for a 30-hour week, he retired to California in 1927 and turned his business over to his son, Jay Catherwood Hormel...
Insuranceman Stevenson will soon move to Bryn Mawr, has a son at Princeton. He amuses himself collecting first editions of Scott, Dickens, Twain, Poe and Whitman. His prize possession: the manuscript of Whitman's autobiography, which he picked up for a pittance from a busted bootlegger...
...firm as messenger boy in 1903. He was 13 at the time and used to sneak out the back door of his home so the gang would not see him in his first pair of long pants. Before long he struck up a friendship with his boss's son, Walter Scoville, a lad of about the same age. In 1921 they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House 13 years ago. Aside from Business, his only interest is his family in suburban...