Word: hammond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond", so runs the official title of an organization which gave, one evening last week, not one but eleven dinners. Dinners in Manhattan, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco, dinners as well in London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Manila and the Rand. What far flung company of friends is this? They are the friends of a man who has lived a full life?such a life as few men can or even could have lived, the life of John Hays Hammond, most radically democratic millionaire...
...main dinner, the one at which Mr. Hammond and his wife, beaming in light blue and pearls, sat down with members of their family, was in Manhattan. Secretary of Labor Davis was there. Bishop Freeman and ex-President Hadley of Yale were there. President Humphries of Boston Tech, Otto Kahn of the Metropolitan Opera, Colonel Lindsay of the American Legion, Senators Oddie and Pittman were there. Even President Coolidge was there?in spirit?among 10,000 others who had written tributes to Mr. Hammond...
...dinner was originally set for March instead of May?March 31, Mr. Hammond's birthday. It was postponed for the convenience of the guest of honor. But the postponement enabled the preparation for presentation of a bound volume of the messages which came from all over the world on the original date?messages from the President and Vice President, from the Chief Justice and two other Justices of the Supreme Court, from eight members of the Cabinet and innumerable ex-members, from eleven Senators, from General Pershing and the late Luther Burbank, from Charles Dana Gibson and Chauncey Depew, from...
...amiable sorceress, dark, inscrutable, good to look upon and exercising the benign witchcraft of a fascinating and highly advertised woman."?Percy Hammond. "The hands are like faces."? Arthur Hopkins...
...election of officers of the Staple's Club for next year took place last night. William Churchill Hammond Jr., of Holyoke, was elected President, Charles Gustaf Ramsay Leigh of Petersburg, Va., Vice-President, Howard Stephen Chase, of San Jose, Cal., Secretary, and Allan Wylie Walter, of Mendota, Ill., Treasurer...