Word: allen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Subcommittee of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee-precise, fingerpointing Senator Shortridge of California, square-jawed Senator Allen of Kansas, ruddy Senator Robinson of Arkansas-last week got down to investigating whether William B. Shearer, naval expert, had broken up the Geneva Disarmament Conference, whether U. S. shipbuilding companies had paid him for doing...
Founder Harris died in 1916. By that time N. W. Harris & Co. opened a Manhattan branch in 1890. This branch thrived under the direction of partner N. Wetmore Halsey* and later of partner Allen B. Forbes and became Harris, Forbes & Co. There are today Harris, Forbes & Co. branches in Boston, Montreal and London, the original N. W. Harris Co. survives in the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. Mr. Forbes died in 1923, and Lloyd W. Smith, Harris, Forbes president since 1921, became also chairman...
Died. Arthur S. Allen Jr., 22, Senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, owner and sailor of the sailboat in which Artist Rockwell Kent and party were wrecked this summer off Greenland (TIME, June 24); at Tarrytown, N. Y. Alighting from a bus, he was run down by an automobile...
...first lecture in the University course for the education of teachers of the blind, the only one of its kind in America, will be held today at 3 o'clock in Room 3, Lawrence Hall, Kirkland St., Cambridge. The course is given by Professor E. E. Allen, lecturer in the School of Education, who is also director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown...
...gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, orated patriotically. In pageant and parade appeared facsimiles of Poet Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins, Tom Thumb (first U. S. locomotive), first telegraph, first U. S. electric car. Tolerant Baltimoreans rejoiced to see Catholic, Masonic, Jewish fraternal organizations parading amiably together. Up-and-coming Baltimoreans, impatient with these oldtime mementos, bustled pridefully at reminders of civic betterments: police floats "Heroism" and "While Baltimore...