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I thought I knew modern history reasonably well, but there are 10 Times MOY I never heard of:

Walter Chrysler - auto magnate?
Owen Young
Pierre Laval
Hugh Johnson
Mrs. Wallis Simpson - philanthropist?
James Byrnes
Mohammed Mossadegh - sounds familiar, but I can't place him.
Harlow Curtice
Dr. David Ho
Andy Grove

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Chrysler, yeap you got that one right.

Johnson _ Johnson and Johnson fame????

Wallis Simpson - King Edward gave up the being King to marry her.

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Owen D. Young (October 27, 1874 - July 11, 1962) was an American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat at the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929, as a member of the German Reparations International Commission.

He is best known for his SRC diplomacy and for founding the Radio Corporation of America. Young founded RCA as a subsidiary of GE in 1919; he became its first chairman and continued in that position until 1929.

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Damn check out his.

Pierre Laval (28 June 1883 – 15 October 1945) was a French politician and four times Prime Minister, the third and fourth times being under the Vichy government. After World War II he was convicted of high treason and executed.

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Johnson was a New Deal Dem helped frame the selective service act.

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James Byrnes should be better known than he is. He was President Truman’s closest foreign policy advisor during 1945. He became Sec. of State on July 3, 1945. But prior to that he almost became President of the United States.

By 1944 Byrnes had been nicknamed the “Assistant President”. One of FDR’s closest advisors on domestic issues, he was director of the Office of War Mobilization. Thru OWM, Byrnes had authority over the large amount of civilian work that was related to the war effort. The Washington Post wrote that his powers appeared to be “exceeded only by the president”. (David Robertson, Sly and Able, pg. 320-327).

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Mohammad Mosaddeq (Mossadeq (help·info)) (Persian: محمد مصدق‎ Moḥammad Moṣaddeq, also Mosaddegh or Mossadegh) (19 May 1882 – 5 March 1967) served as the Prime Minister of Iran[1][2] from 1951 to 1953. A prominent parlimentarian when Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated in 1951, he was twice appointed to that office by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, after a positive vote of inclination by the parliament.[3] Mossadegh was a nationalist and passionately opposed foreign intervention in Iran. He was also the architect of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), today known as British Petroleum (BP).

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What I find amazing is that Jonas Salk never won the award.