Word: bartonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkey presents today the most promising and challenging field on the face of the earth for missionary service." Thus wrote James L. Barton, missionary executive, in last week's issue of Christian Work. But first he summarized the revolutionary changes in Turkey since 1923. The changes...
...hundred years Christian missionaries have struggled hopelessly to capture the hearts of the Calif-awed Turks. They had come, said Mr. Barton, to suspect that "the Moslem was outside the sphere of the operation of divine grace...
...following Seniors have been appointed to serve on the Committee: John Wright Adie of Chestnut Hill, Francis Lowell Barton of Boston, James Laurence Carroll Jr. of Melrose, Randolph Harrison Dyer of St. Louis, Mo., Charles Lewis Harding Jr. of Dedham, Robert Parker MacFadden of Cambridge. Edward Walker Marshall of Portland, Me., Edward Reed Nash of Brookline, Stanley de Jongh Osborne of Guatemala City, Guatemala, Robert Winslow Puffer Jr. of Wellesley Hills, Alfred Hart Stafford of Newtonville, Robert Winthrop of Boston, and Kennard Woodworth of Boston...
...name of the new corporation is derived from those of Professor Elisha Gray and Enos M. Barton, who formed a partnership in 1869 to manufacture electrical equipment. Gray was a professor in Oberlin College, and his inventions composed the partnership's chief assets. Barton was a telegraph operator, who put $400 into the business by mortgaging his mother's house. In 1872 the original partnership of Gray & Barton reorganized as the Western Electric Manufacturing Co. In 1881 this was re-christened the Western Electric Co. In 1882 the concern began manufacturing telephone equipment for the Bell system...
...company, Graybar Electric, thus represents a reversion to the original business of Gray & Barton 56 years ago, before telephone supply manufacturing was undertaken. It is thought that this is the first known case where a company in this country, after such a period of years and such a tremendous growth, has reverted to its original name and business...