Word: cochrans
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...edifice for the American Church would be built on the left bank of the Seine where that river-to be exact, at the Quai d'Orsay-cuts through Paris. The balance is assured because the project has the official approval of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Presbyterian Joseph W. Cochran Jr. is pastor...
...piano. Cunningly, Mr. Day conducted an orchestra of instruments subtler than those of Mr. Damrosch's. Up and up went the bidders. At last only three were left: William C. Potter, President of the Guaranty Trust Co.; Charles E. Mitchell, President of the National City Bank; Thomas Cochran, of J. P. Morgan...
...said Mr. Cochran...
Thus hearty Mr. Cochran, generous with dollars, jokes, and rich in both, came to own the piano. Immediately he presented it to the Association. Then the 18 artists played We Won't Go Home Till Morning. They improvised chopsticks; the tune was recorded on a player-piano role, auctioned by Mr. Damrosch to Cornelius N. Bliss...
...other contributions came from the John F. Slater fund, of Charlottesville, Va., and the J. C. Penny Foundation, of Manhattan. Individuals contributing: Julius Rosenwald, Cyrus H. McCormick, Harold H. Swift, Mrs. Emmons Elaine, all of Chicago; Samuel Mather and Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, of Cleveland; Miss Fanny T. Cochran and Miss Juliana Wood, of Philadelphia; Joseph Lee, George Wigglesworth, Charles E. Mason, of Boston; Edward S. Harkness, George Foster Peabody, Paul D. Cravath (Chairman of Fisk's Board of Trustees, whose father was a Fisk founder and its President for 25 years), V. Everit Macy, Arthur Curtiss James, Dwight...