Word: corliss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easily ajar. That is why he left Exeter (1888) and Harvard (1892), to become a good reporter (and later, a good copy reader) on the New York Tribune. And why in 1902, he could bring order out of the chaos of an importing and exporting house which became Lamont, Corliss & Co. (agents for Cream of Wheat, Rainbow Dye, Pond's Extract, O'Sullivan's, Peter's Chocolate), of which he is now chairman. It is why the late Henry P. Davison called him, in 1903, to be secretary-treasurer of the Bankers Trust (Lament: "All my business life I have...
...last month. A liberal himself (he supported Cox and Davis because of the League issue, voted for Hoover last fall), he has in his immediate family almost every shade of liberal opinion. His eldest son (Thomas S.) is now, at 31, a Morgan partner, is far more conservative than Corliss, who voted for Smith and now teaches Philosophy at Columbia University. And while Mr. Lamont has received many an honorary degree, it was Mrs. Lamont who, after raising four children, earned a Ph.D. at Columbia...
Married. Catherine A. Smith, 24, youngest daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; and Francis J. Quillinan, 25, Assistant Deputy Attorney General of New York; in Albany (see P9) Married. Corliss Lament, 26, second son of Thomas William Lament, Morgan partner; and Margaret Hayes Irish, daughter of Dr. Reuben H. Irish of Troy; in Troy...
...Engaged. Corliss Lamont, graduate student at Columbia University, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, of Manhattan; to Miss Margaret Hayes Irish, of Troy...
...Corliss, Chairman, Miss Winifred Wrenn; T. F. Martin, Miss Elinor Roger; George Bennett, Miss Frances Kelly; Melvin Gerofski, Miss Dorothy Perry...