Word: howard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Engaged. Howard Fisher, youngest of the seven brothers of the Fisher Body Corp. fame; to Miss Justine Price, daughter of the late Lawrence Price, head of the Auto Body Co., onetime leading rival of the Fisher Corp., of Lansing, Mich...
...Crime and Criminal Justice 25,000.00International research in the social sciences 7,490.77Study of individual industrial efficiency and research in the field of business 20,000.00The Charles Sprague Sargent Memorial Fund for the Endowment of the Arnold Arboretum 222.345.00Estate of Martha L. Sargent (Mrs. Howard Sargent.: To be known as the Louisa Lee legacy 83,175.06Mrs. Augustus Clifford Tower: To establish the "Augustus Clifford Tower Fund (1927)." Restricted until a specified time, after which one fellowship to a graduate of Harvard College for study in a French university; the other to a French student...
...canal near Chattanooga helped him make friends with dams, sluices, locks. Through the Spanish War he served as Chief Engineer in the Porto Rican Army. After planning forts near Newport he joined the General Staff in Washington, where his abilities caught the tiny, twinkling eyes of William Howard Taft. Mr. Taft spoke of him to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt ordered him to Panama to cut a waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
...Others so dubbed by the Chamber have been John Sherman (1823-1900) Secretary of State under President McKinley; Chief Justice William Howard Taft; George Dent Crabbs...
International. John Howard Lawson wrote what a lot of people consider the best play in the modern manner yet written by a U. S. playwright. It was Processional produced some seasons ago with none too conspicuous magnetism by the Theatre Guild. Since then those who were stirred by it hasten to see Mr. Lawson's latest. In this one they were disappointed; Mr. Lawson's modern manner has sent his play flying in every direction at once. It is in 21 scenes, some of them in Thibet. It purports to be a satire on modern life. There are capitalists, lamas...