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Mitzi Perdue: Inheriting a Fortune, and Putting It to Work
Mitzi Perdue grew up inside one of America’s great family businesses and married into another. She’s the daughter of Sheraton co-founder Ernest Henderson and the widow of Frank Perdue. When she inherited a fortune at a young age, she didn’t buy jets or yachts. She went back to school and became a rice farmer.
Mitzi shares the promise her father made to a room of frightened employees during the Great Depression, which became the foundation of Sheraton. She explains how Frank Perdue made a commodity a household name, and why both families still fly economy. Then she takes us…
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