Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Missouri Pacific, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Union Pacific...
Last week another vast business passed, from the family that built it, toward the hands of the public. Eldridge R. Johnson, the Camden, N. J., mechanic who 32 years ago took the squeak out of toy phonographs like the ones he saw at Coney Island; his son, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, and his secretary, H. R. Hathaway, turned over a majority holding of common stock in the Victor Talking Machine Co. to J. and W. Seligman & Co., Manhattan brokers, and Speyer & Co., Manhattan bankers. For all 348,863 shares outstanding, the buyers were prepared to pay some 40 millions hospital...
...group of fifteen nominees, and accordingly will serve as Chairman of the Committee. The other elected committeemen are. Ellsworth Charles Haggerty of Allston; William Partridge Ellison of Newton; Bayard Livingston Kilgour of Cincinnati, Ohio; Carl Gustave Ture Lundell of Dorchester; John New bold Robinson of Wakefield, Rhode Island, and Joseph Delano Hitch Jr. of Denver, Colorado...
...United States was chairman, two living ex-Presidents, the Governor of Massachusetts, and the Premier of Canada, Vice-Chairmen, had been appointed to represent the public. The members of the committee were prominent citizens of the United States and Canada headed by the Governors of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Committees had also been designated by the Alumni Association and the Associated Harvard Clubs. These committees in collaboration with the University authorities arranged a carefully worked out schedule. On account of the smallness of Sanders Theatre it was decided that the President Emeritus should be greeted...
Death came quietly to President Eliot in the sea-washed rugged hills of Mt. Desert Island. There was no blaring of trumpets, no dramatics, only the calm courage which had characterized his life. A few days before the end he startled his nurse with the quiet remark that he would not live out the week. Once or twice the old urge to be up and doing came upon him, but in the main he lay quietly waiting...