Word: addison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Addison Sims...
There are few U. S. embassies that have been better filled than that at Tokyo since last fall. It was slightly less than a year ago that Mr. Coolidge named Edgar Addison Bancroft, Ambassador to Japan (TIME, Sept. 8). The new Ambassador was a Chicago lawyer who had never before held public office. He had been attorney for several railways-the Santa Fe, the Chicago & Western Indiana-and for the International Harvester Co. He had come into prominence in 1894 when he procured an injunction against the railway strikers who had tied up almost all the railways entering Chicago...
Died. Edgar Addison Bancroft, 67, U. S. Ambassador to Japan; at Karuizawa, Japan, from an internal hemorrhage...
There was much more, but it was cut short by the chairman, who tapped his, water glass authoritatively and arose. "Men of the I. C. S.," he announced in clarion tones, "I have the honor and privilege to tell you that our most distinguished alumnus, Mr. Addison Sims of Seattle, the merger king, has endowed our institution so generously that in the future all our courses will be conducted by special delivery...
...appointment of the members of the Student Advisory Committee for next year was announced last night. The following men were appointed: James Addison Halsted '26, of Syracuse, N. Y., Chairman; George Douglass Debevoise '26, of New York City; Laurence Orlen Pratt '26, of West Newton; William Enos Soule '27, of Newton; Lee Yates Ward '27, of Rochester, N. Y.; David Worcester '28, of Boston...