Word: coffin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
United's Frederick Brant Rentschler became president and board chairman of NAT, supplanting Earle Reynolds and Howard E. Coffin. Other old-guard directors surrendered their chairs to United...
Bitter were the recriminations that followed. Said Board Chairman Howard E. Coffin of NAT: "Stockholders stood overwhelming by the present management and voted 521,000 shares for retention . . . despite the unfriendly efforts of United to gain control for its selfish interest...
...while millions of her country-folk heard the grave music broadcast over the nation, a spare, withered old lady lay peacefully in death. Although no one kept watch over her as over the bodies of kings and statesmen, the old lady did not appear to be alone. On her coffin lay a faded photograph of 50 years ago. Next day when she was carried the 40 miles to Coburg the photograph went too; stayed close to her when she was carried into the city crematorium and a string quartet sounded the measured strains of the Pilgrim's Chorus. The picture...
...Spanish Army, Don Primo is entitled to a military funeral in Madrid, with the entire garrison brigade in the line of march. Such a funeral was planned for him; a host of grandees, churchmen, royal representatives and public dignitaries made ready to march slowly behind the flag-draped coffin along the route, lined with soldiers, to San Isidro Cemetery, where relatives of Don Primo are already buried...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary: "I go about in the colleges now and I have to report to young women. If the Church is not going to keep pace with modern society and ' give women the right of becoming pastors, we are going to lose their support. They feel that a stigma is placed on them...