Word: howe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder Isaac Merritt Singer had no sooner launched his enterprise in 1851 than he became involved in countless lawsuits with Elias Howe and other sewing machine inventors. Founder Singer paid his lawyer, Edward P. Clark, in Singer stock, and it was not long before Mr. Clark's interest was as big as Mr. Singer's. But Founder Singer was quite content to leave the business in Mr. Clark's hands, departing for Europe, there to live a gay and gaudy life, in which there are legends of no less than nine wives and 21 children. The Clarks...
Leverett House: Richard G. Fletcher, Jr. '35; Chairman; Arthur S. Pier, Jr. '35; Stephen H. Tyng '35; John S. Howe '36; Charles S. Kelley, 3rd '36; Robert H. Rawson...
...COUSIN F. MARION CRAWFORD? Maude Howe Elliott?Macmillan ($2.50). More about the late socialite writer, by the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, one of Newport's grandest oldest ladies...
...political ambitions has Kansas' oldtime editor Ed Howe, now 81, who last week broke silence in an interview published in Country Home: "I never liked the Roosevelt type of man. They're too much for show, too quick on the trigger for safety, too cozy with idealistic leadership. The antics of the present Administration are the craziest I've ever seen. As a man who has had to run a business, I'll admit that you have to experiment a little, take a little risk; but I do object to a lot of new thought politicians up in Washington taking...
Strong objections such as Ed Howe's were certainly necessary to make bedfellows of the founders of ALL, and no commonplace, ready-made bed would hold them. The nature of ALL, as its president Jouett Shouse announced it, was to parallel the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment: to take a definite stand on particular issues, to take no direct part in elections, to organize and represent before Congress the interests of homeowners, farmers, labor, savings depositors, bondholders and stockholders...