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Died. Mrs. Delia Claiborne Buckner, relict of General Simon Bolivar Buckner; of pneumonia; in Louisville, Ky. A Captain in the Mexican War, her husband was the Confederate Brigadier-General who surrendered Fort Donelson to his old friend General Grant. Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891, he was nominated for Vice President by gold-standard Democrats when they bolted William Jennings Bryan's free-silver ticket...
...national bank examiners and the New York State Bankers Association. To these was added last week National Credit Corp. which took space on the sixth floor occupied in part last year by New York Telephone Co. Driven rapidly forward by the Corporation's president, Mortimer Norton Buckner, things soon hummed on the Reserve building's sixth floor...
...Credit Corp.'s twelve divisions throughout the land. Important in the personnel will be the telephone operators, for through their plugs and switches will flow almost all the office's activity, mostly long distance. And most familiar to the telephone operators will be the voice of Banker Buckner who stayed at the office after midnights last week galvanizing the biggest corporation ever formed on such short notice...
When Dr. Miller ended his speech he took off cap and gown, helped them on to Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel (pronounced Kuh-nave'-ul) of Chicago. By robing, Dr. Kanavel assumed the presidency of the College. He is a smaller man than retiring President Miller. The official sleeves hung over his wrists as he swung into an official flaying of social and industrial medicine not guided by responsible doctors...
...York Trust Company's Mortimer Norton Buckner was elected president of National Credit Corp., Daniel Gould Wing of Boston and Walter Winfred Smith of St. Louis vice presidents. Nelson S. Dearmont of New York became secretary & treasurer, the only officer not on the board.* After their meeting the directors issued a long statement, promised the corporation would be ready to loan money within the week. Made public also was the news that within the past month New York banks had loaned $100,000,000 to neighboring centres to prevent further difficulties. These loans will be considered part of their...