Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Besides the four names above, 126 other women help make laws in the U. S., as members of state legislatures. One is a Negress, Mrs. E. Howard Harper of West Virginia. The party affiliations of the 126 are as follows: Republicans, 86; Democrats, 34 nonpartisan, 5; independent...
...England's transportation, the N. Y. N. H. & H. bought trolley, steamship and other connecting lines at inflated values. Financial collapse of the N. Y. N. H. & H. followed. President Mellen was ejected. Later Edward Jones Pearson, able railroad operator, came in as president, while Howard Elliott, now chairman of the Northern Pacific, gave financial counsel...
...Howard, head of the E. W. Scripps Co. and its 26 Scripps-Howard newspapers, met some gentlemen from the Guaranty Co., the Chemical National Bank of Manhattan and of Sidlo, Simons, Day & Co. of Denver. The men, like most men in finance, depend for livelihood upon creating new security issues for sale to investors. Mr. Howard's company, they knew, could carry new financing. It had never gone to the general public for funds and it was a great profit-earner. On his part, he could use some millions to pay for papers which he had recently acquired...
Died. George Howard Earle Jr., 72, financier, lawyer, brilliant reorganizer of the Real Estate Trust Co. (Philadelphia) when that institution, on the point of collapsing, was stabilized, and stockholders recovered every cent of their money; in Philadelphia, after a year's illness...
...baseball season was launched yesterday afternoon at the new LeBaron Russell Briggs baseball cage, when the first practice for University and Freshman battery men was held. The veteran hurlers who reported for the first practice of the year were F. B. Cutts '28, R. R. Ketchum '29, Howard Whitmore '29, E. L. Malloy '29, and W. S. Hardie '30. The following aspirants for the catching berth, left vacant by the graduation of Henry Chauncey '27, reported to Coach F. F. Mitchell: R. H. Barbour '30, R. W. Turner '28, D. P. Donaldson '28, and W. W. Lord '28, who will...