Word: bowen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, others have proposed that the U. S. persuade Canada to join in dredging out the St. Lawrence route to the sea. And a Buffalo lawyer, Millard F. Bowen, offered to form a public service corporation to dredge and operate the New York canal free of charge in return for certain waterpower rights. Mr. Bowen's offer received little attention, but debate on the New York v. the St. Lawrence route occupied much time in Washington committee rooms last fortnight, developed into a hot sectional fight, the Midwest turning out with surprising unanimity to favor the St. Lawrence route...
Examination for Marriage. A lay deputy, Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen of Washington, D. C., proposed that a board of three to five physicians of high standing be appointed by the Bishop, the health officer and the President of the Medical Association of each community, to certify to the physical and mental health of all persons before their marriage by the Church. He said that such action would reduce the number of divorces, of children born blind, of morons, of criminals...
...discussing the approaching competition, James William Bowen '82, business manager of the eighth board of CRIMSON editors, discussed the difference in aspect of the competition which is about to begin and the one which he entered...
...experience in either case is equally valuable," concluded Mr. Bowen, who as stock and bond dealer has found his early business training invaluable. "One who has never gone through such an experience cannot fully realize just how much it can do to prepare a man for the problems which he will have to face in, later life. I have always looked back upon my CRIMSON work as the most valuable extra-curricular activity of my undergraduate career...
Merchant Jumel. They slapped their thighs in the Merchants' Exchange; they discussed it in a nervous whisper in the Tontine Coffee House. Merchant Stephen Jumel, the richest man in Manhattan in 1800, had installed one Eliza Bowen in his mansion on Whitehall Street, bought her a fine carriage in which she paraded, the huzzy, to the disgruntlement of other matrons who, though formally wedded, had no carriages. She was a bad one, this Eliza. At 19, she had given birth to a brat, insolently christened George Washington Bowen, who for many years startled all beholders by the striking resemblance...