Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RAYMOND The Elgin A. Simonds Co. Syracuse...
...Henry Guppy's term as president of the British Library Association ended last week and Edward James Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine replaced him at the association's jubilee meeting in Edinburgh. The chief significance of the succession lay in the ability of a librarian group to attract a potent citizen to their leadership...
...earl is the great-grandson of that Lord Elgin who found the "Elgin" marbles scattered over the Acropolis at Athens. He picked them up and carried them to England. The present earl, who lives at Dunfermline, Scotland, where Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born, is an honorary colonel of the City of Edinburgh and, more importantly, chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. That institution (endowment £2,000,000) is the analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses...
LOUISE (MRS. JAMES) EPPENSTEIN Elgin...
Died. David C. Cook, 76, president of the David C. Cook Publishing Company, publishers of Sunday School literature; in Elgin, III. His publications include 43 titles, have a combined circulation of more than...