Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati married a Miss Fannie Phelps, who bore him Charles Phelps Taft and died. He then married Miss Louisa Maria Torrey, who bore him three sons, one every other year beginning in 1857-William Howard Taft, Henry Waters Taft (Manhattan lawyer) and Horace Button Taft (founder-headmaster of Taft School, Watertown, Conn.). Three of these Tafts had issue. Charles Phelps Taft's children were Jane, David, Anna, Charles. William Howard Taft's were Robert, Charles Phelps II, Helen. Henry Waters Taft's were Walbridge, William Howard II and Louise. These, in turn, have produced...
...fight hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover] won't fight?" ... It was also the week of that classic political utterance: "Nothing embarrasses me!" . . . Louis W. Hill, Board Chairman of the Great Northern Railroad and son of its founder, the late, great James J. Hill, jumped for joy and led cheers on the Smith platform in St. Paul. . . . Senator Shipstead, the duck-hunting dentist, the Farmer Laborite, was friendly-and then reported "hurt," "alienated." . . . Milwaukee went wild over the prospect of hearing its beer signs creak again. . . . Nominee Smith went...
Salespersons in the Bat'a shops, from Singapore to Prague, are well primed with "House organ" facts about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three...
...disclosed the names of many famed Philadelphians, presumably bigwigs who had dickered with him. Among these were: D. B. Cummins Catherwood, banker; Gardner Cassat, banker & broker; Roland R. Foulke, attorney & active churchman; Maxwell R. Marston, onetime (1923) national amateur golf champion; Major Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, author, lecturer, explorer, founder of the "Athletic Christianity" movement. Subpoenas were scattered far and wide...
...lead. He went into the stock market. On a large scale, he bought shares of various corporations. Financial writers began calling him a speculator. They linked him with Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago, an out-&-out, but secretive market operator. They compared him with William Crapo Durant, ousted founder of General Motors and now one of the shrewdest, hardest hitting operators in Wall Street...