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...collector the late florid George Dawson Rowley of Brighton attempted to avoid competition by concentrating on the eggs and skins of the extinct Great Auk. He assembled the greatest collection of Auk eggs in the world before his death. At the sale last week Captain Vivian Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president...
...Heminway, another Connecticut concern founded in the first year of the Gold Rush. Now the oldest silk company in the U. S., Belding Heminway accounted for one-half the country's spool silk and no small share of its fabrics and hosiery. Nevertheless, Belding languished throughout the most florid years of the New Era. The net result of the bankers' touch was a deficit each year from 1928 through 1932, a decline in assets from $14,000,000 to $4,000,000 and a low for the stock...
...34th year under the presidency of Mary Emma Woolley, 71, famed feminist and warrior for peace who crowned her labors in 1932 as the only U. S. woman delegate to the unsuccessful Geneva Disarmament Conference. Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself...
Predecessor. When Mr. Morgenthau sits at his desk, he can raise his eyes to the right and look up into the florid features of Salmon P. Chase. He may take some com fort from doing so, for he and Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury have much in common. Chase, too, was not a financier by training. His chief interest in life was abolition and he had the difficult job of financing the war to end slavery. The Dictionary of American Biography says of Mr. Chase...
Declared gusty, florid William Alexander Campbell, editor of the Independent: ''Whew, what a relief! Don't get the idea I was vacationing during the strike. I worked the hardest I have in years. Maybe I can take it easy...