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...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...
...railroad brings prestige to a community. It may also bring prosperity by carrying to market what the community produces. So in 1912 the citizens of Forgan, at the entrance of the wheat-rich Oklahoma Panhandle, were glad when the Wichita Falls & Northwestern (now part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas) chose their town for a terminus.- And the folk of Beaver, the county seat seven miles to the south, were chagrined because railroadless Beaver was outdone. They pooled their wheat receipts, hired a teamster at $4 a day, graded the land by eye, started a railroad to Forgan. Before half...
...Forgan was founded by Frank Kell, then president of Wichita Falls & Northwestern. The road had banking connections with Chicago's famed Forgan family, in whose honor the town was named...