Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elected. Bayard W. Read, son of the late Financier William A. Read (Dillon, Read & Co.); to be an assistant secretary of Central Hanover Bank (Manhattan), successor organization to Central Trust Co., of which his father was a longtime trustee...
...Herbert Bayard Swope, retired Executive Editor of the New York World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared...
...figurehead is President Hearst Jr. Ten hours at his desk is no long day for him. Seriously a journalist, ambitious, he dislikes Manhattan but wants to make a success of his job. No less a pundit than Herbert Bayard Swope, onetime chief of the New York World, is said to have boomed at Songwriter Irving Berlin of Hearst Jr.: "He is the most promising young man who has come into the profession of journalism during my lifetime...
...cross Park Avenue with Third Avenue. I don't want to give up Third Avenue, but I want to get Park. I believe the people on both streets have much in common and one thing is a taste for decency. The canons of journalism I learned from Herbert Bayard Swope are the only ones I know...
...where persons of every religious denomination, or of no religious denomination, shall be eligible to attend." First-President White bore bravely into the teeth of booming gales of religion as well as pedantry to bring to Ithaca such outside figures as James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, George William Curtis, Bayard Taylor, Theodore William Dwight, Goldwin Smith, as lecturers...