Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vestry of St. Matthew's, it condemns the brand of Christianity, the clergyman, and the congregation from which it issues. . . . For them [Negro communicants] to be publicly and insultingly expelled for no other reason than their color, is not only contrary to the teachings and precepts of the founder of Christianity but is a gross violation of ordinary justice and common decency and courtesy. ... If it has your sanction, well, God help...
...confused with his brother, the late James Henry Rand, founder of the Rand Kardex Co. which was later merged (1927) to form Remington Rand, Inc., manufacturers of office equipment. Board chairman of Remington Rand, Inc. now is James Henry Rand Jr., cooperating cousin of Banker George Franklin Rand...
Harris, Forbes & Co. began in 1882 as N. W. Harris & Co. At that time Founder Norman Wait Harris had an office on Chicago's Clark St., three employes and $30,000. But he also had two ideas. First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such procedure was regarded as undignified; Mr. Harris and his men were termed doorbell ringers. But Mr. Harris knew that he, small, new, obscure, would never prosper by waiting for investors to call upon him, so he rang the doorbells, sold the bonds, became ancestor of all bond salesmen since...
...Founder Harris died in 1916. By that time N. W. Harris & Co. opened a Manhattan branch in 1890. This branch thrived under the direction of partner N. Wetmore Halsey* and later of partner Allen B. Forbes and became Harris, Forbes & Co. There are today Harris, Forbes & Co. branches in Boston, Montreal and London, the original N. W. Harris Co. survives in the Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. Mr. Forbes died in 1923, and Lloyd W. Smith, Harris, Forbes president since 1921, became also chairman...
...Founder of N. W. Halsey & Co., now Halsey, Stuart...