Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millionaire patron of the arts: " Popular vote (at New York City's Silver Jubilee) acclaimed me as one of a number of ' civic heroes' who have done most good for the greater city since its creation 25 years ago. Others similarly chosen were: Mrs. E. H. Harriman (whose private benefactions have been considerable), Nathan Straus and Mrs. Millicent Hearst (whose picture as a public benefactor can be viewed almost daily in her husband's press...
Separated. Mrs. Elsie Ferguson Clarke, actress, and Thomas B. Clarke, Jr., Vice President of the Harriman National Bank, Manhattan...
...Admiral Line (in which Robert Dollar is interested), each bid to buy its own route and that operated by the other. There were also several bids for the South American trade, and others for East Indian and Mediterranean routes. The United American Lines (of which W. A. Harriman is Chairman) are understood to be making overtures for the purchase of five of the Board's large Atlantic passenger liners: the Leviathan, George Washington, America, President Buchanan, President Roosevelt...
...Exonians will play in the following order: Verrill, one; Merrick, two; Holt, three; Parker, four; Sewall, five; and Johnson, six. Their doubles teams are Verrill and Holt, Parker and Johnson, and Jackel and Harriman...
...Subsequently he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and became a Director in the Illinois Central. After several years of railroad experience with that and other roads, he was elected its President in 1887. The subsequent clash between Mr. Fish and the late E. H. Harriman for the control of the Illinois Central proved to be one of the epochal conflicts in the history of Wall Street. Mr. Harriman, who sought the Central as an outlet to the Union Pacific, broke with Mr. Fish in 1906, and after initially getting the worst of the bitter struggle which...