Volume 2: The crown and the hat are all over the capital, and the spirit is full of energy and enter the foggy city Chapter 49 Kennedy
Subtitle of this chapter: Is the character appearing this time famous?
PADDY is mostly translated as rice field, rice, and paddy, and its extended meaning is country bumpkin, and further extended to mean Irish.
The term was generally used disparagingly. However, in 1798 Lord Edward FitzGeral, an important leader of the United Irishmen, declared himself a proud "Paddy and nothing more".
So PADDY became a nickname for the Irish.
At almost the same time when Gu Weijun and Meng Xiancheng saw the advertisement, a certain Paddy in Boston, Massachusetts also saw it. However, the newspaper he read was not Le Monde, but The Boston Herald-American.
Being of Irish descent, he certainly knew that the ad was asking them what they had forgotten, and that was the Irish Great Famine.
His ancestor came to America by ship during the Great Irish Famine in 1848. His name was Padraig.
"Coincidentally", Padraig is the Irish variant of the English name Patrick, and his nickname is also Paddy.
Old Paddy was only 26 years old when he arrived in the United States. He quickly found a job in a barrel factory, and after earning some money, he settled down, got married and had children.
In 1858, this lucky Irishman died of cholera, and the responsibility of taking care of the family fell to his widow, Butridge. In order to raise three daughters and a son, this tenacious mother worked as a clerk, a barber, and finally became a partner in a small grocery store.
Their only son was also named Padraig. When he was 14 years old, Paddy dropped out of school and worked as a porter at the dock. He saved a little money and opened a small bar in the dock area. Later, he showed outstanding business talent and opened two more chain bars in a short period of time.
In post-Civil War Boston, the bars, like Munich's beer halls today, were de facto political arenas for politicians to perform in. Even better, during election time, some generous candidates would provide free drinks.
So little Paddy's bar naturally became his springboard into the State House, and he and his family became wealthy from it.
In 1895, after serving as a state legislator for six years, he and his friends founded a bank called Columbia Trust Company with $130,000.
In this way, in less than forty years from 1848 to 1895, a politician and banker emerged from a poor Irish family.
In 1888, Paddy's wife gave birth to a son in the West End of Boston, who is reading this newspaper...
Joseph Patrick Kennedy!
"Dad, dad, dad..."
Just as little Paddy was recalling his family history, a little boy stumbled into his study. This was his second son with Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of the former mayor of Boston.
Well, this cute little boy with a delicate figure is the future JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
"John, didn't Dad tell you not to come into my study when I'm working?"
Little Paddy is a very strict father. Even though his son is only four years old, he is still meticulous.
"Daddy, give me a hug. " Little John ignored his father's ugly face and still wanted to get into his arms.
Looking at the pitiful appearance of his second son, Mr. Kennedy sighed in his heart. The child had been in poor health since childhood and almost died of scarlet fever last year. In fact, JFK suffered from "Addison's disease" and adrenal gland problems, which caused his immune system to be weakened and he needed to take steroid drugs for life.
Fearing that his health problems would affect his political future, JFK kept his medical history strictly confidential, and this concealment continued even after he was assassinated.
The strict father finally picked up his son and read him the newspaper.
"Dad, who is Paddy?"
"John, Paddy is us."
"Dad, so what did we forget?"
"John, we will not forget, we will not forget..."
"John, you are here? Didn't I tell you not to disturb your father's work?" At this moment, Mrs. Kennedy came in and said in a "stern" tone of a mother: "Go out and play with your brother!"
JFK's brother was named Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., just like his father. In the original timeline, the fourth-generation eldest son of the Kennedy family would become a pilot and died in World War II.
Watching their son run out of the study happily, Mr. Kennedy asked, "Rose, do you want to go to New York?"
"New York?" Mrs. Kennedy knew what her husband was thinking, but she still hesitated and said, "Joseph, isn't it a little early?"
After graduating, Joseph Kennedy became the chairman of the Boston Bank with the support of his father, and he called himself the youngest bank chairman in the United States. He inherited his father's business talent and made a lot of money by engaging in various speculative transactions before and after World War I. This also made the Kennedy family one of the real American wealthy families.
Joseph Kennedy, who was in his prime, had money and naturally had greater ambitions. Although Boston was the largest city in New England, it could not be compared with the heart of the capitalist world, New York.
He also believed that it would be easier for his children to enter the social circle in New York, so he had always planned to move his family to Xinxiang City.
"Rose, look at this ad..." Mr. Kennedy handed the Boston Herald-American to his wife and said, "I want to go to New York to meet Mr. Griffith."
Mrs. Kennedy read the short advertisement and then asked, "Joseph, do you want to invest in this movie? But..."
Joseph Kennedy did have some business talent and had started to get involved in the lucrative film and television industry very early on. But...
"A three million dollar investment? The director or Mr. Griffith? Joseph, this is not a good idea."
Mr. Kennedy nodded and said, "It does look quite exaggerated, so I need to go to New York to talk to this great director in person and take a look at the script."
He hesitated for a moment and said, "Ross, why don't I go to New York first. If this movie is really worth investing in, I will not only invest but also strive to be the producer."
"Besides, I just happened to be meeting some old friends and asked them to recommend me some houses and schools. It will be much more convenient when you guys get there."
Since he said so, Mrs. Kennedy would naturally have no objection.
So when our Master Yuan returns to New York, there will be a big surprise..
