Word: harold
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These and some 70 other sticklers must be answered by the boy who would join the Royal Lions Auto Club of Stockbridge, Mich. It exists because a country school near Stockbridge offered no course in automobiles and 13-year-old Pupil Harold Mayer wanted to know all about them. He founded the club three years ago, took it along with him to Stockbridge High School, where it now has 150 members. Beaming on this venture in self-education, high-school officials furnished a schoolroom for weekly meetings, appointed a faculty adviser. Automotive manufacturers send lecturers, catalogs, publicity handouts, occasionally lend...
...John D. Hertz, who, putting all thought of retirement from his head, had in the meantime become a partner in the Manhattan banking house of Lehman Brothers. Another was Floyd Bostwick Odium, who smelled a bargain for his Atlas Corp. And finally there was Harold A. Fortington, financial secretary of Britain's Royal Liverpool group of insurance companies. An exceedingly rich and somewhat mysterious Briton, Mr. Fortington has been in the U. S. since 1920. He has a home in England, an apartment in Manhattan and a 1,400-acre estate in Pawling, N. Y., where...
...year from June 1, 1935: Harold D. Chope, appointed Instructor in Public Health Administration. A.B., Stanford '26; M.D., ibid., '31; M.P.H., Harvard '33. Assistant in Instruction and Research, Stanford, 1928-31; Instructor in Preventive Medicine, Stanford, 1931-32; Epidemiologist for St. Louis, Mo., 1933-34, and for the state of California 1934-35. At present Health Officer, Newton, Mass...
TIME gladly straightens the record of the Original Eight who back Col. Lindbergh. Besides Brothers Wooster & Albert Bond Lambert (Listerine), they were: Banker Harold McMillan Bixby, credited with naming the Lindbergh plane Spirit of St. Louis; the late Banker Harry F. Knight, his son & partner Harry Hall Knight; Publisher E. Lansing Ray of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Major William Bryan Robertson, vice president of Curtiss-Wright Airplane Co.. Earl C. Thompson, then operator of a one-plane sightseeing service at St. Louis Airport, now selling stocks, bonds & insurance at Kennett...
...Pratt family's interest in Socony is exceeded only by that of the Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout manned by numberless grooms and milkmen. As many as 100 big & little Pratts and their in-laws assemble for annual...