Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Gerard Conn, 86, founder of Conn Band Instrument Co., Civil War Veteran, onetime (1893-95) U. S. Representative from Indiana, one-time owner of the Washington Times; in Los Angeles, Calif...
...fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth...
...struggles, phenomenal success and subsequent leader ship." The six: President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel; Builder Ernest Robert Graham of Chicago (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White); Samuel Insull; Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank; Chair man John D. Ryan of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; President Gerard Swope of General Electric...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh bought a 150-acre farm near Princeton, N. J., hard by the estate of his friend Gerard Barnes Lambert (yachts, planes, "Listerine...
Another plan for unemployment relief was outlined last week by Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co. Its essence: when the company deems an "unemployment emergency" to have arisen in a plant, the employes of the plant pay 1% of their salaries into a fund, the company paying an equal amount. This fund is administered by an employe-company board, which pays to any employe who has been in the service of the company more than one year and who is laid off temporarily, half his weekly earnings?the total amount paid not to exceed $20 per week...