Word: greeley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could be accommodated. Thus the shop became known as the Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox soon moved to larger quarters. Among early Knox customers were Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennet, Thurlow Weed, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln...
Back in the Sober Seventies the typewriter tinker was a faithful reader of The Weekly Tribune founded by Editor Horace Greeley. Years after he left New York state and moved across the Atlantic to settle in Tinglev, Schleswig, the Danish mechanic remembered the great U. S. editor. When he begat a son in Tinglev, he named the man-child?today chief of the German delegation in Paris?Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. The onetime plowboy was. of course, General Electric's Owen D. Young, chief negotiant for the U. S. in Paris, chairman of the Second Dawes Committee...
...Times was started in 1851 by two young men who were excited by the report that Horace Greeley had made his New York Tribune earn $60,000 in one year. These founders-Henry Raymond and George Jones, both Tribune men, the one editorial and the other business-set the Times going with 100 shares of common stock, each of which they dared to believe might, sometime, be worth...
...life and the best football of the entire Spring practice was displayed. J. F. Schereschewsky '32, intercepted a "Michigan" pass in the middle of the third quarter and raced 35 yards for a touchdown. On the try for the extra point R. F. Gleason '32 and R. B. Greeley '31 completed a forward to put their side in the lead 7 to 4. To turn the game into a complete rout F. J. Gilligan '32 following a determined "Florida" drive down-field late in the fourth period, plunged over for another six points. "Florida" passed again for the extra point...
That was up to last week, when Smithsonian Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott, zealous for his scientists' labors and his Institution's reputation, made a loud and lusty complaint. Those book agents, he declared, were misrepresenting. They let buyers believe that the Smithsonian Institution was publishing the books and making large profits. Really the Smithsonian Scientific Series, Inc., new Manhattan concern, was publisher. The Institution received only 10% royalties, a ridiculously small percentage, which he had vainly sought to get increased, whereas the book agents were getting 25% to 35% commissions. The Institution was tied up by contract for 30 years...