Word: clarke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Antarctic continent is a pie-shaped disk 5,000,000 sq. mi. in area, circled by a white crust of mountains 10,000 ft. high. It may contain valuable minerals or oil. Great Britain has a generally recognized claim to two segments of the pie. British Explorers James Clark Ross (1902), Robert Falcon Scott, (1902), Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1919) claimed their discoveries in the name of the British sovereign...
...Jersey's Teagle. Huge is the Standard of New Jersey organization, but not too huge for the personal domination of Walter Clark Teagle. Mr. Teagle is 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. When he opens the door of the company's offices, his presence is instantly felt throughout the premises. He seldom leaves the office without a briefcase; usually works at home from dinner time to bed time; goes to sleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. His only outside interest is hunting and fishing. He is an active member of a Canadian fishing camp...
...Teagle's maternal grandfather, Morris Clark, was first partner of John Davison Rockefeller, in the days before Mr. Rockefeller began the formation of Standard Oil. His father, John Teagle, was an early oilman. It was to drive a tank car in his father's firm (Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle) that young Walter Teagle in 1900 refused an instructorship at Cornell University, from which he had just been graduated. Then the Republic Oil Company absorbed Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle and Walter Teagle, at 23, became Republic's vice president. In 1903 he went to Standard of New Jersey, as member of its export...
Associated with Soucy on the committee will be W. C. Baylies '84, S. V. R. Crosby '91, H. S. Grew '96, J. W. Farley '99, James Lawrence '01, C. J. Swan '01, L. H. Leary '05, H. C. Clark '11, R. T. Fisher '12, M. J. Logan '15, W. B. Felton '19, C. C. Buell '23, P. H. Theopold '25, and Leo Daley...
...officials selected by the Conference as a result of the poll last spring are announced by Mr. Clark as follows: E. M. Kelleher of Cambridge, M. W. Souders of Milton, G. W. Hoyt of Boston, James Parker of Everett, R. Jackson of Springfield, D. J. Kelly of Cambridge, T. P. Shea of Spring field, H. A. Swaifield of Fairfield, Conn J. N. Young of North Adams, R. Dillon of Hartford, Conn O. Tower of Andover, W. F. Coady of Boston, L. E. Ball of Amherst, J. P. Haughy of Pawtucket, R. I. J. LeCain of Springfield, H. McGinness of Brighton...