Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share this year, Lou Manning denied any open market operations. Chairman William Mowat Flook stepped down to vice chairman to make way for Mr. Cord and Lou Manning became chairman of the executive committee. Venerable President Clinton Lloyd Bardo stayed on to build the ships. Andrew William Mellon founded New York Shipbuilding in 1899 (see p. 47). Astute, he sold it out at the height of the Wartime shipbuilding boom. After the War when marine construction dwindled almost to nil, it branched into electrical equipment under license agreements with the famed Swiss firm of Brown, Boveri...
...settle a $29,900 delinquent tax bill on 40 acres in Brooklawn, N. J., rich Andrew William Mellon, onetime Secretary of the Treasury, offered 50? on the dollar. For a similar bill of $90,000, nearby Belmawr accepted his check...
Built in 1759 by Colonel John Vassall, Jr., a Tory, who fled at commencement of Revolution. Occupied by Washington as headquarters from July 1775, to April, 1776. Subsequently bought by Andrew Craigie, from whose estate Longfellow purchased it about 1843. Generally called Craigie House. Before sale to Longfellow it was occupied by Jared Sparks, Edward Everett and Joseph E. Worcester, of dictionary fame. Open to visitors only on Saturday afternoons from...
...peaks are as high from base level as any in the Rockies, point out that only from an air plane has anyone seen sections of its deep wilderness. Nobody boasts that it is the land from which the Cherokee Nation was driven in 1836-39, in spite of Andrew Jackson's promises, when Georgians thought they had found gold in the deep Valley of the Noonday...
...population, had successively turned thumbs down on national Prohibition by ratifying the 21st Amendment. The Prohibition Bureau had just had its personnel reduced 40% in the interest of Government economy, leaving a staff of less than 2,000 to enforce the Volstead Act from coast to coast. Andrew John Volstead, author of that Act, had just lost his $4,500 per year job as counsel to the Prohibition administration at St. Paul. Nevertheless, the scores & scores of white-clad, earnest ladies of the W. C. T. U. remained undaunted in Prohibition's darkest hour in a decade...