Word: gatherer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life: Picking and peddling blueberries. Career: He was the ninth of ten children in a poor Irish Catholic family. His father was a factory hand pressing cattle horns into combs. The factory closed. The father died. Spindly-legged David Ignatius, aged 7, trudged over the hills around Worcester to gather wild berries and sell them. He picked enough, and did enough odd jobs, newspaper-selling, errand-running, to put himself through school. He was president of his class. From Holy Cross he was graduated in 1893, from the Boston University Law School four years later. At 24 he began...
Rules of procedure allow the Board to meet anywhere in Europe, though they must gather at least four times a year in the Bank headquarters at Basle. Monthly statements and an annual report must be made public...
...McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary Hall at Washington...
...interested runners will gather in competition for the prize, which was won last year by Sturtevant Burr '31. Burr is now a member of the cross country squad which will run in the intercollegiate meet at Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, on Monday, November...
...overseas muddles into which its vast foreign interests plunged the Morgan house. In China (the Consortium), Mexico (International Committee), France (Anglo-French $500,000,000 loan), Austria (1923 joint loan), he has been at one time or another the most important financial factor. When these and many another nation gather together, as at Versailles in 1919 and at Paris in 1929, Mr. Lamont is summoned to speak for U. S. finance. He himself considers his work at Paris last summer the most significant of his life...