Word: buren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presiding and introducing the speakers was H. Van Buren Cleveland...
Hundred years ago last week, when Martin Van Buren was President, Brothers-in-law William Procter, who made candles, and James Gamble, who made soap, joined forces in a shed in Cincinnati, set about selling their products from door to door with one assistant. Last week P. & G., now the largest U. S. maker of soap and allied products-with 10,000 employes, total assets of $133.000.000, net income last year of $16,000,000-distinguished itself by making no fuss whatever over the fact that it is one of the few great U. S. corporations with a century...
...same time it was state that Joseph P. Kennedy would be business manager; Bruce Griswold would handle all artwork and photography; H. Van Buren Cleveland would take charge of the editorial work; and that Vernon H. Struck would supervise the biographical material...
...with a leap to read the week's news in the journals. Sad to see the public vilification of General Jackson and Mr. Van Buren goes on unabated. "This no less than treasonable to call the President such names as the New York American does. Laughed merrily to read a speech made by Mr. Clay at a dinner of malcontents in his wilderness home of Kentucky. By way of attacking the Specie Circular the angry senator said, not with much wisdom methinks, "But on the small purchasers--the saddle-bags men--on the poor the operation of the measure will...
...most readers, there is likely to be no question as to which has made the happier choice of subject. In Poems of People Edgar Lee Masters lapsed into stock poetic attitudes in writing of Washington at Fraunces' Tavern, Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Boone, De Soto. Only in Andrew Jackson does he carry out the promise of his title, calling...