Word: daniell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wheeling & Lake Erie's. controlling shares owned by John D. Rockfeller Sr. were sold to the New York Central (Patrick E. Crowley, President), the Baltimore & Ohio (Daniel Willard, President) and the Nickel Plate R. R.* (Van Sweringen brothers, owners...
...contemporary customs nd scenery he is ageless. No Californian will read his description of an earthquake on the Kentucky barrens without a shudder of recognition. No rifleman but will be excited by his careful account of how Kentuckians, for practice, drove nails and snuffed candles with their bullets; how Daniel Boone "barked" squirrels, hitting the limb under their chins to stun, not mash them. Florida land-boomers may read how Mr. Audubon struggled through primeval subdivisions in a hurricane. The odd naturalist, "Monsieur de T.," slaying bats in his bedroom with Audubon's rare violin, bears witness to backwoods...
...Brayton, W. N. Bump, J. P. Chase, Henry Chauncey, J. P. Crosby, Langdon Dearborn, A. O. Fordyce, E. B. Jackson, V. O. Jones, Joseph Morill, William Mulford, P. H. Nitze, Edward Page. W. C. Peet, J. L. Pool, C. A. Pratt, W. J. Saltonstall, R. W. Sawyer, Daniel Simonds, H. W. Burns, R. W. Turner, John Watts, W. H. White...
President Daniel L. Marsh of Boston University: "When you convince a man that he is an animal and nothing but an animal, he will act like an animal, and you will have a recrudescence of the jungle. . . ." (Dr. Marsh did not state what other animal, besides man, commonly commits suicide...
...better than most men that the Civil War meant a change to U. S. civilization, that the railroads ?then grimy, haphazard affairs, spattered with tobacco juice?would become a great factor in that civilization. They went to Manhattan where Jay Gould (1836-92), James Fisk (1834-72) and Daniel Drew (1797-1879) were forcing from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) control of the Erie, and where Commodore Vanderbilt himself was forcing his way to the control of the New York Central. When the Fisk-Gould machinations around President Grant brought on the "Black Friday" panic of 1869, Abraham Kuhn...