Word: forgan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife were kidnapped in Wilmette (Chicago suburb) by five men in a black sedan who demanded $100,000 ransom. Arguing with their captors as they drove hither & yon, Mr. & Mrs. Collins got the demand down to $5,000. She was released to telephone to Chairman James B. Forgan Jr. of Second Security Bank, while Banker Collins rode on in the black sedan. Banker Collins was later released, failed to say whether or not ransom was paid...
Died. David Robertson Forgan, 69, vice chairman of the executive committee of Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, first Western amateur golf champion (1899); of heart disease; in Evanston...
...which the stamps represent. But it does hope to surpass the $5,300,000 raised last year. The 2,084 local headquarters are utilizing the most insistent names they can enlist for their collection work. In the Manhattan district the name is Thomas William Lament; in Chicago, David Forgan; in St. Louis, John E. Edwards; in Boston, Dr. John B. Hawes II; in Cleve land, Dr. Robert Bishop; in San Francisco, William H. Crocker; in New Orleans, Dr. Chaille Jamison...
...home office although it is represented in 191 cities. The directorate over which he presides includes James Bruce, president of Baltimore Trust Co. and brother of David K. Este Bruce, Secretary Mellon's son-in-law; Waddill Catchings; Ambassador to Japan William Cameron Forbes; Banker David R. Forgan of Chicago; Drugman Louis K. Liggett of Boston; Howard LaVerne Wynegar, president of the company. Last week quiet President Wynegar saw no reason why the instalment business should not continue prosperous...
...Back home! Back home!" shouted Laborites loudly in the House of Com mons last week. They were jeering terrier-like Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, who rose from their ranks and strode defiantly across to the Opposition benches. Close behind him was the whip of his New Party, Dr. Robert Forgan...