Word: chathams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willis Chatham Hawley of Salem, Ore., has succeeded Iowa's Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...
...said potent Samuel McRoberts, chairman of the board of the Chatham & Phenix National Bank, in Manhattan last week. Around him, in the Bankers' Club, sat other potent financiers and many a confident layman. They were the committee which is raising $1,500,000 to "Put the Cross in the Skyline"-a cross no less than 36 feet high, "visible for 26½ miles in every direction" including hardbitten Harlem and Hoboken...
...Christchurch waited the impressive monarch of Chatham Islands, King Tami Solomon (392 pounds). His Majesty had to wait until the Mayor of Christchurch and many another had welcomed the Royal Duke; then King Tami (an impotent old tribal chief) was presented to the second son of the King-Emperor George...
Married. Joan Kaufman, daughter of Louis Graveraet Kaufman, President of Chatham Phenix National Bank, Manhattan; to George Drexel Biddle, son of Craig Biddle (finance), of Philadelphia; in Manhattan. Flower girls wore frocks copied from Lawrence's portrait of "Pinkie" (TIME...
Subsidiary manufacturing companies of the International Harvester are: Aktiebolget International Harvester Co. (Sweden), Chatham Works (Chatham...