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Commander-Larabee was formed in 1926 by a merger of the Larabee mills of Kansas with the Commander group in Minneapolis. The Larabee mills were started by Fred and Frank Larabee in their home town of Hutchinson, Kan. The Commander mills were originated by Banker Benjamin Belcher Sheffield, now head of Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association, W. H. Sudduth, a farmer, and W. D. Gregory. Messrs. Sheffield & Sudduth sold out to a group which included Shreve McLaren Archer, 40, head of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., one of the biggest linseed crushing companies in the World. In 1930 his company bought control...
...honorary A.M. granted by Harvard was conferred in 1703 on Thomas Wells. The Massachusetts Historical Society is authority for the following extract from Sewall's Diary under the date of July 7, 1703 (Commencement Day): "In the afternoon Mr. Wells of Almsbury is made a Master of Art. Mr. Belcher of Newbury Testified his Education under Mr. Andros at Ipswich, that he was a good Latin and Greek Scholar...
...Naval Division, was mentioned in despatches at Gallipoli, wounded in France. After the War he was called to the bar but never practiced, instead joined the staff of Punch (London so-called humorous weekly), whose "darling child" he has been dubbed. With Versifier Owen Seaman, Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher, Herbert supplies what humor still persists in that otherwise respectable Tory sheet. Herbert is married, has one son, three daughters. With a quizzical expression, bright eyes, a beaked nose, he looks like what he is: an intelligent humorist. Other books: The House-by-the-River, Plain Jane, She Shanties...
...derisive London or Manhattan mob. There were the usual mannerly portraits of royalty. In one room Dame Laura Knight, attired in a white felt sombrero, with red pigtails coiled over her ears, was to be seen contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked about, his ruddy face and bushy red eyebrows set off by a bright blue foulard stock. Women, young and old, crowded around Augustus John's portrait of London's rash theatrical favorite, Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of onetime (1917-29) U. S. Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama...
...therefore let us punish Asa the Scribe and make him confess before all Harvard; and Belcher the Ruler, surnamed Bowl, alias Beelzebub, said, let him also be placed below his Fellows, and they agreed to that also...