Word: gerards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August "everyone goes to Scotland," and last week "everyone" included a more than usually thick sprinkling of potent Americans: John Pierpont Morgan, Alanson Bigelow Houghton, James Watson Gerard, Charles W. Ogden, Henry C. Phipps, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Walter Teagle, Herbert L. Pratt, Stephen Metcalf and many another...
Colgate University Gerard Swope, president General Electric Co. LL. D. Herbert Bayard Swope, executive editor New York World Litt...
...Board of the Northern Pacific Railroad; T. W. Lamont '92 of J. P. Morgan and Company; J. P. Morgan '89 of J. P. Morgan and Company; James Simpson, President of Marshall Field and Company; H. N. Straus '03 of the firm of R. H. Macy and Company; and Gerard Swope, President of the General Electric Company...
Some who heard Mr. Gerard last week may have wondered why he chose to utter even the most guarded praise of Wilhelm, who, in 1914-18, was introduced to the U. S. as a rat-faced youth, leering synthesis of cowardice and cruelty. They forgot that Ambassador Gerard looked occasionally for several years upon the actual face of Crown Prince Wilhelm. What does he look like anyway...
Ruthless, caustic German Editor Maximilian Harden, tooth-and-nail foe of the Kaiser, described the onetime Crown Prince after the War, as "a good fellow, very popular with the people, brave and personable." Something like this may have been in Mr. Gerard's mind last week when he called Wilhelm "most shamefully maligned." But to Allied peoples "The Crown Prince" will always be rat-faced', and probably for long detestable...