Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Harriet Kurd McClure, 73, of Waterbury, Conn., wife of Samuel Sidney McClure, founder-publisher of McClure's Magazine; at Waterbury. She was the first woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa (Knox College...
Controlling stock in the Scripps-Howard chainpapers is held today by Robert Paine Scripps, 33, son of the founder. The active chainmaker is Roy Wilson Howard, spruce, spry...
...announced an offering* of no par, non-voting common at $140 a share, a few U. S. hat wearers remembered the time (1917) when Knox shares were selling at $6. That was during a reorganization period following the retirement (1913) of Colonel Edward M. Knox, son of Founder Charles Knox, and before the arrival of the present management, which, under the leadership of President F. H. Montgomery, showed net earnings in 1928 of $859,997, or $10.10 a share on common stock. Acquiring Dunlap & Co. (1919), Long's Hat Stores Corp. (1927), Kaskel & Kaskel Corp. (1928), Knox...
Charles Knox, founder of Knox Hats, came to the U. S. from Ireland in 1830, aged 12. The New York bound ship in which he crossed the Atlantic had been blown far out of its course and finally made port at Wilmington, Del., leaving Charles, 12, and his sister Margaret, 10, stranded 118 miles from their parents in Manhattan. "How are you going to get to New York?" asked the ship captain, who wanted to put Margaret in some Wilmington household and ship Charles as a cabin boy. "We'll walk," said Charles, and they did, in two weeks...
Ninety-eight years ago Stephen Girard, the college founder, whose motto was "To rest is to rust," had died. Alumni, whenever they can, go back to Girard for Founder...