Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they sold out to Palmolive-Peet. After the merger Sidney Morse Colgate was chairman of the new company till his death in 1930, but the old family's influence passed into the background. S. Bayard, son of Sidney, though handicapped by ill health, ably captained Roy Chapman Andrews' motor transport on its first venture into the Gobi Desert. Since his father's death he has managed the family interest in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Quiet, clear-headed Bayard Colgate, now only 34, has again obtained control-which the Colgate family has not had since 1928-will...
...United States would not have been treated to last week's holiday spectacle. That was the simplest answer to the Aldrich blast. It was made not by a Morgan Partner but in one laconic and ironic sentence from the lips of Guaranty Trust's President William Chapman Potter: "My conscience is easy...
Last week's fighting in Jehol meant only hindrance to Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed digger of fossils in Mongolia. Dr. Andrews recognized the State of Manchukuo last autumn, arranged with the Regency to continue his Mongolian diggings. As soon as Japan pacifies the region, he will dart in with Dodge cars, camels and naturalists. He has closed the Peking headquarters from which he led five expeditions between 1921 and 1930 at a cost...
Hillman is confident that Quimby will be at Mangan's heels in both events and in case the Dartmouth sophomore has the strength to upset the great Cornell runner, the green will be in a commanding position. Hellman counts quite heavily on the hurdling ability of Chapman, Dartmouth senior, who ran second in the event at the K. of C. Meet...
...equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt in the militancy of her agitation for woman's suffrage. And just as she had built her palaces, she gave $100,600 for the National Woman's Party headquarters in Washington's B Street. The passage of the 19th Amendment was her reward. In 1931, aged...