Word: cassatts
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Seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1899-1906) was Alexander Johnston Cassatt, "the brains of the Pennsylvania," who launched the campaign that drove the Pennsy under the Hudson River into Manhattan. His son Robert Kelso Cassatt went into the family banking and brokerage firm of Cassatt & Co. Last week Cassatt & Co. announced it would discontinue its brokerage business to become a general investment company. Senior Partner Cassatt and Partner Joseph Walker Wear, Philadelphia socialite, will become partners in the brokerage house of E. A. Pierce & Co., largest wire firm on the New York Stock Exchange...
...Impressionists called him, was more fun. He never tried to tell them what to paint or how to paint, gratefully accepted any canvas they would let him have. A great deal of his stock he got for nothing, and when bills were due and customers non existent, Mary Cassatt, an artist not only equal in ability with the best of the Impressionists but with a comforting supply of good U. S. dollars (derived by her Philadelphia family from the Pennsylvania Railroad), would drop around and buy a picture...
...Dental School, four new members have been appointed. They are Robert K. Cassatt '95, Percy H. Clark '96, and Frank G. Thompson '97, all of Philadelphia, and George C. Cutler '13, of New York City. The one new member on the committee for Health and Athletic Sports is Henry S. Faxon of Boston
...been a Pennsy man since he left college in 1886. Son of a lawyer who quit a Detroit practice to become a Presbyterian preacher and who wanted his son to enter the ministry. President Atterbury started in the Pennsylvania's great Altoona shops. In 1903 President Cassatt jumped him to general manager of the eastern region, a key post. Thereafter his rise, like all railroadmen's, was slow. There are no young railroad presidents. William Wallace Atterbury, now 67, was just under 60 when he stepped into Samuel Rea's shoes...
Hostility to the Legion's Bonus demand continued to flare elsewhere throughout the land. At Chattanooga ex-soldiery banded together under the name of American Veterans, took a strong anti-Bonus stand. Robert K. Cassatt, Philadelphia banker, resigned from his local Legion post. Another Legion resignee was Major General George B. Duncan, retired, of Lexington, Ky., commander of the 82nd Division. When Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired, an adviser to the National Economy League, announced that he had relinquished an honorary Legion membership, Louis Arthur Johnson, the Legion's new national commander, denied the Legion had any honorary members...