Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven last week Lorado Taft, U. S. sculptor who was born the year before the Civil War began, declared, before the students assembled in Sprague Memorial Hall for the final Trowbridge lecture, that: "As Americans we have a perfect and inalienable right to our ignorance...
Engaged. Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown, widow of Congressman William G. Brown Jr., once a stock company actress, twice a Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate, who seconded the presidential nomination of John W. Davis at the last Democratic convention ( TIME, July 7, 1924); to Hugh Miller, professor of civil engineering at Union College, Schenectady. Professor Miller has two sons; Mrs. Brown, one daughter...
...before the Civil War. Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) was a Yankee peddler hawking notions through Connecticut when he came across the lock stitch sewing machine that Elias Howe (1819-67) had invented in 1846. Peddler Singer made some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear...
...Adairs?three generations of Washington Adair was conductor of the first railroad train that entered the city (1845). When Union troops burned the town in the Civil War, he was already doing a real estate business there; and he, as much as anyone else, helped the rebuilding. His sons? able, active Forrest and able, quiet George?continued to trade lots. At one time or another these men and their sons have handled practically every piece of real estate in Atlanta. Forrest Adair has won national repute among Masons for beginning, at Atlanta, the movement for Masonic hospitals for crippled children...
William Whiteley, son of a country grain dealer, came to London and opened a draper's shop while the U.S. Civil War raged. He put his trust in window displays, at a time when storekeepers had to decoy customers into their murky shops. Victorians were dazzled, and he became the "Universal Provider." When shot to death* in 1907, he had a business worth $4,500,000. This, since the War, has supported the model garden village of Burhill, near Walton on the Thames, where several hundred aged men and women workers, indigents, prolong a lean existence in 300 cottages...