Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother, Lillian Russell, was not even acquainted with Mr. Brady during the bicycle era. As for the vehicle itself, it had a goldplated handlebar with mother-of-pearl grips, no diamonds. The pedals were also goldplated. The bicycle was a gift from the Columbia Bicycle manufacturers in appreciation of the vast amount of publicity they derived from her using their product and because she had purchased so many of them, one for each member of the family. . . . DOROTHY RUSSELL...
...with this problem in mind that Secretary Wallace went to Manhattan to address a Columbia University audience. To them he unburdened some measure of his anxiety for his program's future when he said: "I'd be delighted to be an old-fashioned Secretary of Agriculture and concern myself with scientific matters. It is a calm and peaceful kind of existence, but I don't think we are going to be living in the kind of world in the next two or three years where we can drop our agricultural adjustment program. We are going to ease...
Suave young President William Samuel Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System pointed out that his chain is already giving one-sixth of its time free to Religion & Education. Said he: "Columbia has carefully refrained from imposing on its audience any small personal concepts of what the audience ought to receive...
...William Curtise Butler? Messrs. Peterson and Emerson were fully aware of the significance and stature of this Everett banker who happened to be the brother of the president of Columbia University, but to the State of Washington and the nation at large he was not even a potent name. In fact, Nicholas Murray Butler's brother is as enigmatic a figure as Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft...
Ever since he went West from New Jersey in the early 1890s by way of the Columbia School of Mines, William Butler has done most of his business through intermediaries. He was first employed by the Rockefellers at the Monte Cristo gold and silver properties near Everett. When the ore deposits proved shallow, he switched to lumber. For years an ally of the mighty Weyerhaeusers, William Butler chose to stick to the comparatively secure logging business, let others do the milling and merchandising. He got the reputation of driving a hard business bargain. A lumberman named Joe Irving, wrathful...