Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary W. Harriman, widow of Railroad-Financier Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909): "The gold medal which I give annually to the railroad with the best non-accident record again went to the Union Pacific last week. My husband, of whose $100,000,000 estate I am sole heir and manager, built up the Union Pacific system. My sons are both directors. The Union Pacific, which received the medal in 1925 for its 1924 record, obtained the present award because last year its locomotives traveled the equivalent of 53,000,000 miles and carried the equivalent...
...Investment Bankers William Averell and Edward Roland Noel Harriman...
...still remains lively rivalry among them for supremacy in German trade. Thus a fortnight ago the Hamburg-American Line refinanced itself as a $31,000,000 concern and absorbed the German-Australian and Kosmos (to South America) lines. Last spring it bought back three ships once sold to Averell Harriman (TIME, March 15). Its total tonnage is now 879,000. Last week North German Lloyd, apparently somnolescent since the War, increased its capitalization from $8,000,000 to its pre-War total of $30,000,000. Its present ships total 613,000 tons, which will be increased by new constructions...
...usually fixed things up for his clients, whether they were members of the notorious Tweed Ring or onetime (1881-85) U. S. President Chester A. Arthur. Great spawning corporations found use for the mental agility of Attorney Root. James J. Hill, J. P. Morgan and E. H. Harriman came to his office. Said E. H. Harriman: "Other attorneys tell us what we can't do, Mr. Root tells us what...
Married. Miriam Harriman, daughter of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank, Manhattan; to Boykin Cabell Wright of the famed Virginia "Cabells, lawyer, assistant to Herbert Hoover at the Peace Conference; in St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan...