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GROWING RICH WITH GROWTH STOCKS
been an active investor herself. She was so intrigued by Russia during
her trip there as a college student, she made studying the country a
lifelong career. She has traveled there 25 times and is an accomplished
speaker and author on both Russia and China. Her Ph.D. thesis, entitled
“The Soviets at Geneva,” chronicled Russian behavior at the League
of Nations. It received renewed interest following World War II, when
the United Nations was formed. Today, Kathryn is as busy as ever.
She lives in Florida and continues to lecture on the history and sights
of Russia to audiences around the nation. (Ironically, the Davis family
has never invested in Russia.) She is a trustee of Wellesley College,
her undergraduate alma mater, still likes to travel, and is always up
for a swim and good game of tennis.
MEET SHELBY, JR.
The senior Shelby Cullom Davis didn’t want his son to be known
merely as “junior.” So he gave him an extended version of his own
name: Shelby Moore Cullom Davis. The Moore was a logical addition;
both men were named after a Republican politician from Illinois:
Shelby Moore Cullom. Cullom spent 50 years in public office during
the late 1800s and early 1900s. He served two terms as governor of
Illinois, two terms in the House of Representatives, and 30 years as
a U.S. senator. Senator Cullom was credited with founding the Interstate
Commerce Commission, which was set up to regulate the railroads.
He established the Commission after becoming convinced that
farmers in his state were being victimized by the railroad companies.
It cost them more in freight charges to send grain from Springfield,
Illinois, to Chicago by rail than from Chicago to Liverpool, England,
by ship. In other words, the railroads were gouging farmers on short
hauls, and the Interstate Commerce Commission was put in place to
stop that. (Fifty years later, most of the railroad companies were nearly
bankrupt, and the Commission was finally repealed by President
Ronald Reagan.) When Theodore Roosevelt was president, Senator
Cullom was also chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, which
helped to pass legislation for financing the construction of the Panama
Canal. The younger Shelby Davis still has a painting of Senator Cullom
in his office, as does son Chris, who now occupies his grandfather’s
old office on Fifth Avenue in New York.
From now on, when I refer to “Davis,” I’ll be talking about Shelby
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