Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study, Fabian Franklin, economist and likewise journalist, Mr. Sullivan's senior by 22 years, scanned the article. He was accustomed to spying an error a day in the press. He was accustomed to let them pass in silence. But these errors by famed Mr. Sullivan were too flagrant to endure. To the New York Times he wrote hotly: "We note an astonishing error in the mere statement of bald facts. President Wilson's term did not end until March...
...asked Mr. Franklin, can Secretary Mellon be honestly called debt-reduction-wonderman in face of the facts that "in the months from Aug. 31, 1919, to Dec. 31, 1920, the debt was reduced by 2.6 billions under Mr. Mellon's predecessors; and that the best Mr. Mellon was able to do was to reduce it by 2.1 billions in the three years from Dec. 31, 1920, to Dec. 31, 1923, and by 2.8 billions in the three years from...
...Thomas Franklin Millard, long resident in China as the meticulous and widely quoted correspondent of the New York Times cabled a moving story: "A Chinese widow whose livelihood depends on a small flower shop in Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, had one son, aged 14, who used a bicycle to deliver flowers to foreign residences outside the settlement. The boy was returning home when he picked up a poster, and was seized by soldiers and his head cut off instantly. Today the mother when she learned of it was prostrated with grief...
...reactions to this statement were equivocal. President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Reserve University, who, as president of the Floating University, was to have rejoined it in the Mediterranean after leaving it at Panama, but who did not rejoin it, stated vaguely: "I had a personal and altruistic purpose in starting the university, and everything so far has worked out beautifully." Yet the University Travel Association announced that its next cruise would be for men only, and would be "more effective from an educational standpoint." And within the University Travel Association appeared a rift, a split...
...John McEntee Bowman (hotels) Pierre Samuel duPont (industries) Charles Franklin Kettering (General Motors vice president...