Word: jaffray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio, $120,000; Lewis Warrington Baldwin, MOP, $105,167; Leonor Fresnel Loree, Delaware & Hudson, $90,000; Frederick Ely Williamson, New York Central, $80,000; Edward Eugene Loomis, Lehigh, $72,000; Fairfax Harrison, Southern, $67,500; Walter L. Ross, Nickel Plate, $60,000; Clive Talbot Jaffray, the Soo, $45,000; Patrick H. Joyce, Chicago Great Western, $40,500; Morris McDonald, Maine Central...
...Liberty, Mrs. Florence Jaffray ("Daisy") Harriman, Washington socialite and politician, wrote a list of "Ten Best-Mannered men in America." She gave first rank to former Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (''always the gallant gentleman"), second place to Irvin...
...railroads, newspapers, business firms. At first the company loaned its money only to banks, but in July of that year it started to lend directly on livestock. During the past seven years 14,000 Northwestern farmers have borrowed $7,000,000 from it. Its chairman is Clive Talbot Jaffray, who is also head of First Bank Stock Corp. In addition to banking, Mr. Jaffray is president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ("Soo") Ry., subsidiary of the C. P. R. When he attends First Bank Stock Corp. directors' meetings he is joined by five other presidents of Northwestern...
...readily understandable to laymen; as evidence he has introduced cinemas of nuts and bolts being made at Inland Steel's works. Among the formidable witnesses scheduled to appear against Mrs. Ryan are Louis Warren Hill, director of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly, president of Northern Pacific, Clive T. Jaffray, president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway...
Periodically she went to prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...