Word: hancock
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...story of the separation of these two volumes forms a dramatic chapter in the history of Harvard during the Revolutionary War. For at Harvard, the general excitement caused by the outbreak of the war was heightened by the long absence of John Hancock, treasurer of the College from 1778 to 1777, who, though so immersed in public affairs that he was unable to pay or receive money on behalf of the College, refused to resign...
...Metropolitan Life (world's largest) revealed that for two years his organization had been foreclosing farm mortgages only "where the farmer is unwilling to carry on or try to do his part toward working out his problem." Other big life insurance companies which suspended foreclosures in Iowa: John Hancock, Aetna Life, Connecticut Mutual, Connecticut General, Phoenix Mutual...
...black soil of Iowa. Iowa farm mortgage holdings of the principal life insurance companies: Equitable of New York, $90,040,095; Metropolitan, $64,422,538; Equitable of Iowa, $50,098,679; Northwestern Mutual, $40,809,401; Bankers of Iowa, $35,130,952; Mutual Benefit, $34,859,529; John Hancock, $33,251,749; Prudential, $26,059,391; Aetna...
...England's learning." The third master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War's begun and school is done." Five signers of the Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late great Charles William Eliot. Other Boston Latin pupils: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Graham Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Orator Edward Everett...
...Massachusetts Investors Trust as of Jan. i. Mr. Adams has not announced other plans for re-entering private business, but he is an old hand at investment management. Reputed the wealthiest of the famed Adams family, he resigned directorships in some 35 corporations, including A. T. & T., John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance, Boston's Old Colony Trust, upon entering the Cabinet. He is still a trustee of Boston Personal Property Trust, oldest investment trust in the U. S. (founded 1893). As Harvard's treasurer for 30 years, he watched the University's endowment funds grow from...