Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Familiar to U. S. observers were three names in the new cabinet: Minister of Defense Vaugoin, reorganizer of the Austrian army, firm friend and ardent follower of Policeman Schober; Minister of Commerce Hainisch, Austria's beloved, white-bearded onetime President, whose pet cow Bella is world famed; and Minister of Finance Redlich. When the name of the new Minister of Finance was announced to Austrian newsgatherers, Dr. Josef Redlich, famed jurist, historian, lecturer, was at Cambridge, Mass., comfortably ensconced as Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard University. Professor Redlich has already served a term...
...fish, loves to travel. Members of the Engineering Foundation know that he was elected to its chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head of the foundation's research committee George Booker Waterhouse, M. I. T. professor of metallurgy...
...electrified rigidity and a Panama hat throughout most of the play. Inspector Hannen questioned the late Mr. Tracy's lovely wife (Dorothy Peterson) and his partner (Edward Pawley), who was also Mrs. Tracy's lover. After the dark murder of a clerk (J. Hammond Dailey) in the firm of the deceased, the Inspector ordered the motorman to retrace his course. Then he discovered how it was possible for a man to be electrocuted in a subway car designed to insulate its passengers from any possible contact with the third rail...
...announcement is strictly in line with the broad, enlightened and public-spirited policy of the Morgan firm in dealing with the questions in which the people are concerned. The fact that current is being delivered to household consumers by the Province of Ontario on the Canadian side of the river at 2 ¢ per kilowatt hour and at 8 ¢ on the American side tells its own story...
...Saltonstall prize was established in 1926, in memory of Endicott Peabody Saltonstall, by his friends. Saltonstall graduated from Harvard College in 1894, and from the Harvard Law School in 1897. He was a member of the firm of Blood and Saltonstall at the time of his death, and had previously been a member of Saltonstall, Dodge, and Carter...