Word: finley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replica of the famed Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where P. B. K. was founded 150 years ago); the guest rooms, the auditorium, the pictures of the founders of the country's scholastic hierarchy. There was a festive meal with more speakers of distinction: Dr. John H. Finley of Manhattan, President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia (representing Governor Byrd), President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College. Among others present, though modestly silent, was John D. Rockefeller Jr. whose aid in the society's current million-dollar endowment drive has not been confined...
...York, Rochester, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, Springfield (or Newton), Macs., Atlanta and Winston-Salem, N. C. Dr. Thomas Edward Fin- egan, chairman of the National Education Association's committee on visual education, has been conferring with a committee that in- cluded Dr. John Huston Finley of Manhattan, Superintendent William A. McAndrew of Chicago, Commissioner Payson Smith of Massachusetts...
...civilization. Last week, at the age of 81, he died of pneumonia, after four years of retirement from business. By 1883, the year Charles Albert Coffin turned from his profitable manufacturing of shoes at Lynn, Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light in 1878. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-) shortly was to develop a clanking generator...
...necessary that two national conventions approve. In 1920 at Cleveland it was first proposed. Mrs. Finley Shepard (Helen Gould) resigned as president as a result of the discord. In 1922 at Hot Springs. Ark., it was rejected. In 1924 at Manhattan delegates approved this pledge: "I desire to enter the Christian fellowship of the association. I will loyally endeavor to uphold the purpose in my own life and through my membership in the association." Last week reactionaries offered as an amendment: "I accept Jesus Christ, as my Savior and Lord, and pledge myself to endeavor to carry out the purpose...
...Nothing was paid on the $13,750,000 of common stock. This showing results, despite the good business year, from the foreclosure sale in 1914 of the M. Rumely Co. and the Rumely Products Co. The Reorganization Committee bought these for $4,000,000. Now Finley P. Mount is President...