Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wall in the offices of Blair & Co., bankers, at No. 24 Broad St., Manhattan, hangs a portrait of J. Insley Blair, founder. Revered is the memory of Mr. Blair, but stocks and bonds no longer interest him. The inheritor of his power, though not of his title, is Elisha Walker, senior partner of Blair & Co.* There is little about Partner Walker to distinguish him, outwardly, from other Blair & Co. partners such as Polo Player J. Cheever Cowdin. He has dark hair. He is of medium size. He is decidedly middle aged. He likes to play poker. He is impatient...
Many a distinction exists, however, between G. M. and Opel for G. M., began as a motor car producer, is only 20 years old. But Adam Opel began making sewing machines in Russelheim when Yankee volunteers retreated from Bull Run. Early in the 80's Founder Adam bought an English bicycle for his son, and in 1886 added a bicycle factory to the Opel works! Clever merchandizer, he knew selfconscious Germans would hesitate to appear ridiculous. Accordingly, he provided Opel halls where amateurs might learn to ride Opel bicycles. The Opel cycle factory is today the largest...
Elected. Everett Titsworth Tomlinson Jr., vice president of Doremus & Co., international financial advertising agency; to be president. He succeeds the late Founder-President, Clarence Walker Barron...
Died. Otto Marc Eidlitz, 68, president of Marc Eidlitz & Son, famed Manhattan building constructors (American Tel. & Tel., J. P. Morgan building, Yale's Harkness Quadrangle); of stomach disorder; in Manhattan. Mr. Eidlitz was the son of Founder Marc Eidlitz, who came to the U. S. from Bohemia in 1847, who built Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...Robert Lee Bullard (retired), Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Louis Wiley, Gen. Lincoln Clark Andrews. Also there is Rev. T. Lawrason Riggs, smart Catholic chaplain of New Haven, Conn.** The name of the organization is in loving memory of George Calvert, founder of Maryland Free State. Better than any other Catholic organization it has reached non-Catholics. But its GOOD AMERICANISM advertisement was criticized for using bad taste to combat bad taste...