Word: governors
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...French tried and the British succeeded in ousting the Spaniards, in 1742. The battle of Bloody Marsh, won by Georgia's Founder-Governor Oglethorpe on St. Simon's Island, near Sapeloe, was one of the actions decisive in breaking Spain's grip on continental America...
...Boston, Mrs. Alvan Tufts Fuller, wife of Governor Fuller, presented Serge Koussevitzky with the first Boston Symphony Orchestra records made under his leadership for the Victor Talking Machine Co. The records were of Stravinsky's Petrovshka and an excerpt from the new Apollon Musagete, both, according to Conductor Koussevitzky, peculiarly adapted for successful recording...
...Fast-growing, the Manufacturer's Trust Co., 139 Broadway, last week absorbed two other Manhattan banks, became fifth largest of New York trust companies, acquired position among the ten largest U. S. financial institutions. The banks merged were Interstate Trust Co., formed in 1926 by onetime (1923-26) Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey and State Bank and Trust Co., headed by Harold G. Richard. Resources of the combined banks...
Died. Winfield Taylor Durbin, 81, onetime Republican Governor of Indiana (1901-05), financier (banks, public utilities), Civil & Spanish War veteran, of Anderson, Ind.; of bronchial pneumonia; in Anderson...
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late hunter-President, arrived last week in Rangoon, sojourned with Governor Sir Charles Innes of Burma, prepared to push on into the jungle, there to hunt big game and gather strange specimens...