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...business into the world's biggest farm-equipment house, International Harvester Co. In 1895 he married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith, was divorced by her in 1921. Next year he married Singer Ganna Walska, whose opera ambitions he tried to realize without success. He withdrew his support from the Chicago Civic Opera Co. in the season 1921-22, divorced Walska in 1931, helped found the Chicago Grand Opera Co. in 1934. Ill during the last years of his life, he married Adah Wilson, his nurse...
Livingston offered Shreve a half interest in the monopoly, equal credit with Fulton in inventing the steamboat. When Shreve refused, Livingston had him arrested. Nevertheless, only two days behind schedule Shreve steamed out of New Orleans. "The monopoly's helplessness was farcical." In 1819 the Fulton-Livingston company withdrew all claim to a monopoly. "News of this surged up every stream. The Mississippi was free! Henry Shreve had battered the barrier down." In the next two years 60 steamboats were built on the River...
...Wood withdrew to digest his reports, the President called a White House conference of members from both parties. To them he would put his ideas, weigh their opinions and objections. The decision called for all the statesmanship he possessed. He could risk everything now on one smashing fight to repeal the entire act-which his advisers held would be an enormous boost to the morale of all the world. Or he could move as he has been moving, step by step, whittling the act's barriers away one by one. The first choice would involve great risks. Even defeat...
...slope is honeycombed with tunnels, dugouts, telephone centers and munitions dumps. Dozen upon dozen of mortar shells still stand there, packed in boxes. . . . Here, beside piles of stretchers, is a great plot of turned-up earth, 400 yards square, where the Germans had swiftly buried their dead as they withdrew. A Russian anti-tank gun, wreathed in boughs, now stands there...
...present Sir Charles produced three fabulous daughters. He promised Sarawak to his 28-year-old nephew, Sir Anthony Brooke, but withdrew the promise when Anthony married pretty Kathleen Hudden, a commoner. Last April he announced his intention of establishing a constitutional monarchy for his superstitious, head-hunting subjects, who dote on such delicacies as wood slugs and hot rice wine, who count among them such medical curiosities as the "Snake Man" who sheds his skin once a year...