Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Senator Reed looked into the Republican campaign manager's story of an "$8,000,000 international hankers' pool" to elect Democratic senators in Indiana. This simmered down to a $600 bureau run by the gentle-voiced widow of a minister to promote "world friendship among children...
Fifty per cent of the funds so obtained will go to a somewhat nebulous U. S. charity, the Mothers' Memorial Foundation. The remaining 50% will go to the ballet of Mile. Fuller, who originally attracted the notice and reputedly the friendship of Queen Marie by journeying to Rumania and producing there the Queen's several fairy tale dramas...
...knew him save by sight and reputation. He was a scholarly recluse and passed much of his time in the company of a few kindred spirits of whom the leader was Lawrence Buermeyer of Reading, Pa., a graduate student and later a member of the Princeton Faculty. The friendship between Carson and Buermeyer survived their student days. They took it with them and kept it alive in New York City, where Lawrence obtained a position on the philosophical faculty of New York University, Joseph instructing in the same subject at Columbia...
Andrew Carnegie, grasping for iron and steel monopoly made Frick his chief partner-in Carnegie Bros. That was in 1889. But theirs was no close friendship. Both were too individualistic. Eventually they quarreled, called each other names, separated, but this was after Frick, with the aid of some Carnegie men-Charles M. Schwab, William Ellis Corey and James Gayley-had smashed the bloody, massacring Homestead Strike of 1892. In the riots Anarchist Alexander Berkman shot Frick, stabbed him thrice...
...been difficult for the newspapers to prevail upon Mr. Hammond to preside. His interest in education, early stimulated by friendship with Cecil Rhodes (scholarship) whose consulting engineer he was in South Africa, has lately quickened. Some months ago he addressed "all June graduates" by radio on the subject of "Success...