Word: canale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louisiana--H. Y. P. dance at the St. Charles Hotel, December 30, New Orleans. Secretary, Richard B. Montgomery, Jr. '25, Canal Bank Bldg., New Orleans...
...goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...
...When he was managing a canal company, Wistar called on President Ulysses S. Grant at Long Beach, N. J. to protest against what he considered oppressive tax maneuvers engaged in by the Secretary of the Treasury. During the conversation Grant asked: "General Wistar, have you any friends in Philadelphia who would buy that cottage across the road? I am very anxious to dispose of it." Wistar, suspecting that he was being felt out for a bribe, departed indignantly...
...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...
Died. Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury, 61, president of Standard Oil Co. of California; of a heart attack; on board the Grace Liner Santa Paula, in the Panama Canal...