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Dirk’s risky leap from architecture to bonds in 1918
In 1918 Dirk abandons architecture for bond sales at Great Lakes Trust, jettisoning a planned career for quick wealth. Selina, his mother, confronts him with the cost to his artistic dream, while Paula and Theodore Storm scheme in Chicago’s glittering social and financial circles. Dirk enjoys rapid success but faces mounting personal entanglements and the lure of “jeunesse doree.”
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Dirk
Great Lakes Trust Company
Theodore Storm
Selina
Spain
Hollis & Sprague’s
Dirki
Chicago
Peel’s
First National Bank
Old Aug Hempel
Michael Arnold
Phillip Emery
Baldwin
Aug Hempel
Pettier
County Limerick
County Kilkenny
Scotland
Rhineland
Aes
An Ad
Julie
Paula
Paul
Storm
Pervus de Jong
Society
Sunday Tribune
Jeunesse Loren
Jeunesse Doree
Meena
Kennedy
Farnham
North Shore
Huyler's
Deah
Deeah