Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coke Co. ? appointment (at 29) as Comptroller of the Currency under McKinley ? founding of the Central Trust Co. (Chicago) ? commission as Major in the engineers (1917) ? Pur chasing Agent for the A. E. F.* ? the Congressional War investigations (in which he made his famous "Helen Maria" remarks) ? advocacy of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations ? Director of the Budget ? "Dawes' report" on reparations...
...branch forth in a new direction with the traditional magnetism of his family. But the insidious voice of trouble raised its head. Could it be that he had not financed his venture in an entirely straight-and-narrow fashion ? Two ladies filed complaints against the Vanderbilt Newspapers, Inc.; Helen G. Sharpe and Anna L. Watson charged that they were persuaded to buy stock by false inducements, because the name of William H. Vanderbilt appeared in the promotion literature of the company as a Vice President and Director. The allegation seems quite absurd; the young Cornelius must have known that William...
...Colt, to Amy Lee, December 4, 1923; Thomas Roscoe Conklin, to Jane Elizabeth Waters, June 28, 1923; Newcomb Fuller, to Pauline Eddy, December 29, 1923; Lloyd Francis Harris, to Dorothy Harriet Daniels, June 12, 1923; Walter Hamor Piston, to Kathryn Nason, September 14, 1920; Otto Frank Reis, to Evelyn Helen Walz, May 24, 1921; Francis Harold Robart, to Ruth Gibson, May 19, 1923; Edward Andrews Rose, to Cevira Cudebec, December 23, 1923; David Sears, to Ellen Phelps White, June 25, 1923; Phineas Shaw Sprague, to Lucy Carnegie, March 15, 1924; Ralph Grattan Tedford, to Gertrude B. Brown, June...
...Helen Wills, 18-year-old woman tennis champion of the U. S., now abroad for the English championship matches at Wimbledon, as well as for the Olympic matches, favorably impressed the London critics, not only by her tennis play but by her beauty. In a trial match against Mr. P. D. B. Spence, South African Davis Cup player, she was defeated...
...Berengaria (Cunard) : Helen Wills, U. S. woman tennis champion; Arthur Hammerstein and his wife, Dorothy Dalton; Pat Sullivan, originator of the famed cinema cat "Felix;" Dr. J. T. Dorrance, Campbell Soup President; Dr. A. Hamilton Rice, South American explorer and Mrs. Rice, onetime widow of George D. Widener; A. J. Horlick, Malted Milk President; Mrs. Rebecca West, authoress...