Word: co
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sudden rise to publicity of Victim and Victor caught the book trade unaware. Clerks went scurrying around looking under counters to see if they had any in stock. The novel was published last December by the Religious Book Department of Macmillan Co. It was reviewed in due course. Here and there a big-time reviewer was favorable but there was no concerted beating of the tomtoms such as heralds a volume bound for success of esteem and money...
...before now. His novel Fear, published two years ago. also by Macmillan's Religious Book Department, has achieved eleven printings. Victim and Victor has had one large printing since December. Both are on the same general theme: the healing power, spiritual, mental, physical, that may lie in the co-operative work of an understanding physician and an intelligent minister. The hero of Victim and Victor is a priest unfrocked for drunkenness. Author Oliver, a Doctor, was an unfrocked minister from 1923 to 1927, is now practising psychiatry and criminology in Baltimore...
...stockholders in British General Electric Co., Ltd., last week congratulated themselves upon the brains & brawn of the two representatives whom they had last month (TIME, April 1) sent to London. For well had Commissioners Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne and Herbert Bayard Swope performed their duties. True, Commissioner Chadbourne had been taken with a chill, and both Commissioners Chadbourne & Swope had excursioned to Paris, there to witness a contemporary demonstration of the ancient truth that one horse can run faster than another. But between chills, thrills, the U. S. representatives had also won a complete, a memorable, a monumental victory. For last...
Married. Henry Latham Doherty, 58. of Manhattan, self-made public utilities and oil tycoon (Cities Service Co., Henry L. Doherty & Co.), "richest U. S. bachelor"; and Mrs. Percy Frank Eames, 40, relict of an International Harvester Co. foreign official; secretly, on Dec. 31 last; in Toronto. Mrs. Eames had nursed Tycoon Doherty through a nearly fatal arthritis illness. An Eames daughter, 18, is being schooled in Spain. Last week, in Atlantic City, N. J., the Dohertys planned a return to Manhattan. In the luxurious Doherty penthouse apartment, the Doherty bed, at punch of button, moves on rails...
...thence to Miami and the West Indies, or to Panama and Ecuador. The deal to cooperate was consummated after many interruptions. United's Rentschler was interrupted frequently by needs of his seven subsidiary companies. A. C. A.'s Hoyt, although he seems sequestered behind his Hayden, Stone & Co. desk, is kept hopping out of Manhattan on affairs of the four aviation concerns of which he is chairman - Wright Aeronautical, Keystone-Loening, Travel Air, Aviation Corp. of the Americas (Pan-American...