Word: gouverneur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's largest city, people have come to expect big things of the institution which once turned out such graduates as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris...
...Money. The son of a Gouverneur, N.Y. coal dealer, Noble was selling advertising back in 1913 when he saw an opportunity to make some big money. With a partner, J. Roy Allen, he bought the Life Savers business for $2,900 from a chocolate manufacturer who had no confidence in Life Savers' future. By shrewd advertising, they put Life Savers into the mouths of 100,000,000 people. By 1925, Partner Allen was able to retire with $3,300,000; in 1938 Ed Noble's Life Savers was valued...
...immediately submitted to the Harvard "Mechanical Brain," this problem might conceivably be solved by the time I have finished drawing up the blueprints and Gouverneur Winthrop's men reach the moon...
...GOUVERNEUR WINTHROP New York City
...Descendant of Gouverneur Morris, brother of Manhattan's City Council President Newbold Morris, first cousin of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles...