Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thompson is at present connected with the firm of Coffin and Burr, Boston stockbrokers. It is understood that Mr. Thompson will continue this business connection while devoting most of his time to the management of the University's athletic finances. He will take over his duties at once...
Miss Ishbel MacDonald, 24, buxom, serious, speaking with an even more pronounced Scotch burr than her father, accompanied him. Anxious, she conferred with Cunard officials who were unable to supply an outside cabin on the short notice given them. At that moment appeared Sir Joseph and Lady Duveen who offered their spacious outside cabin. Sir Joseph Duveen (Art Objects) was insistent. Yet soon a Cunard office boy rushed aboard with information that another suitable cabin had been canceled...
...President Baker has stuck to his Bank of the Manhattan Co., the corporation which his grandfather (another Stephen Baker) helped conniving Aaron Burr create in 1799, ostensibly to furnish Manhattan drinking water against the yellow fever epidemic of that year, really to weasel a banking institution through the objections of Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr hated and later killed in duel...
...Cartoonists of America made Illustrator Gibson one of their guests of honor last week. Two others were 70-year-old Frederick Burr Opper, whose masterpiece was Happy Hooligan; and William Allen Rogers, "dean of political cartoonists...