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...that Church. It was Anthony Nicholas Brady, father of Nicholas Frederic, who founded the Brady fortune, at one time among the greatest in the U. S. Anthony, born in Lille, France, went to Troy, N. Y., in 1857, worked first in the barber shop at Albany's old Delavan House. At 19 he started a tea store, soon opened branches. His first utility interest was acquiring stock in Albany Gas Light Co. A genius for consolidation, in comparatively short time he acquired control of Manhattan utility and traction companies. In 1887 he reorganized Manhattan's elevated railway...
...efficient d o m e s t i c s e r v a n t . & a m p ; q u o t ; Louis J. Tabor, Master of the National Grange (membership, 800,000 farmers). President J. J. Phoenix of the National Knitted Outerwear Association, woolens, manufacturer of Delavan, Wis. He wrote to Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt (q.v.,p. 12): " . . . The writer personally lost one-third of his entire capital during the second Cleveland administration. . . . He was also in business in 1913. . . . Had not the War intervened, the United States would have experienced a worse condition than...
...Delavan, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. William Storck announced the arrival of a daughter, their 17th Storck in 22 years...
...Arbitration met the end of October. On it sat For the railroads: Robert V. Massey of the Pennsylvania and William Ayer Baldwin of the Erie. For the workers: E. P. Curtis, general secretary, Order of Railway Conductors, and Daniel L. Cease, editor, Railway Trainmen. For the public: William Delavan Baldwin, chairman, Otis Elevator Co., and Edgar Erastus Clark, onetime (1906-21) I. C. C. commissioner, now Washington, D. C. lawyer. They had just 45 days, according to law, to hear both sides of the dispute and to make their recommendations for settlement. They accomplished their task-the "public...
...publicity recently accorded his claimed ability to transmute diamond tints (TIME, Aug. 23). But, besides Dr. George A. Soper, who spoke officially as director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, emeritus professor of Surgery of the Post-Graduate Medical School. Lesser men talked with confidentially candid contempt. But only under promise that their names be not mentioned. They feared that their ethical confreres would...