Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fail to put through farm relief within three years, you may cut off my head...
China-then comrades, I will bow my head in shame, and you shall...
...which has for its scope the story of the development of America, the definition of its powers. "O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated...
Manufacturers' Trust was formed in 1905 as Citizens' Trust Co. of Brooklyn (capital $500,000). Under the leadership of Founder Nathan S. Jonas, and with the assistance of his brother, Ralph Jonas, head of Financial and Securities Industrial Corp., the bank's expansion was rapid. Many a small bank was acquired by the Financial Corp., then transferred to the family bank. After the acquisition of the Manufacturers' National Bank, Citizens' Trust became (1916) Manufacturers' Trust...
...send the letter of application which got him the job to the General Electric Co., confused the two Electrics, thus accidentally landed with the Western. His work attracted the attention of Theodore N. Vail, who made him chief statistician. By 1915 he was Vice President; in 1917, as head of the Council of National Defense, he directed the purchase of supplies for the American Expeditionary Forces in France; in 1918 he returned to the A. T. & T.; in 1925 was made A. T. & T. president. Among the many innovations credited to Mr. Gifford is the now familiar "night letter" telegraphic...