Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Field '26, J. R. Fordyce '26, H. R. Jones '26, F. P. Kane '26, W. B. Macomber '26, H. C. Newman '26, W. L. Nichols '26, Davidson Sommers '26, F. U. Stearns '26, R. F. C. Vance '26, E. H. Bailey '27, Dwight Barnum '27, J. L. Gray '27, Richard Morey '27, S. D. Richards '27, and George Sturgis...
...bankers and investors alike have become somewhat impatient waiting for the German loan. The publicity-orchestra has stopped playing, the lights have been turned down, yet still the curtain does not go up. At the American Bankers' Convention, Mr. Dwight W. Morrow was down on the program for an address entitled International Loans. Suddenly Mr. Morrow found he could not be present after all. Several thousand bankers, left in the dark, are more curious than ever...
...Like Theseus entering the Labyrinth, with no string to guide him out save Assistant Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis, President Coolidge plunged into the temporary offices where the War Department is carrying on the work of preparing to pay the soldiers' bonus. In and out through corridors of files, with a dozen typewriters clicking in his ears at every turn, a battalion of adding machines belching forth figures from every cranny and 2,700 acolytes, spread over eleven acres of floor space, putting 20,000 requests through the ritual every day, the President wandered, and emerged with a smile?...
...prediction that Dr. Fosdick would cease to grace the lower Fifth Avenue Presbyterian pulpit. Probably, it was said, he would undertake, every Sunday, to go from Union Theological Seminary (upper Manhattan) to the Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, and thus be come successor to Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Abbott, Newell Dwight Hillis (TIME, Apr. 21). Said Dr. Fosdick by telegram: ". . . WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT UNTIL OFFICIALLY APPROACHED BY AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE OF NEW YORK PRESBYTERY...
...Morrow, of the Canal Zone, brother of Dwight W. Morrow (a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.), set aside Barro Colorado Island, one of the group, as a natural preserve for the wild life of the region. The island is some six square miles in area, lies only about two miles from the Isthmian Railway...