Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. John Jeremiah Pelley of Savannah, Ga., president of the Central of Georgia Railway; to be president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R.; succeeding the late Edward Jones Pearson...
Last week's alteration concerned the New York, New Haven & Hartford, which has been operating without a president since the resignation (Nov. 27, 1928) and death (Dec. 7, 1928) of the late Edward J. Pearson.* To the New Haven presidency went John Jeremiah Pelley, from the presidency of the Central of Georgia Railway...
...Hoovers boarded Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer and cruised away at slow speed for the Florida Keys, for Fort Myers and a birthday party with their great and good friend Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Hoover planned to go on around to the West Coast and try for an early-running tarpon...
From Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer, at anchor by a Florida key, a motor launch chugged away last week and nosed out northeastward across eight miles of wind-roughened water to the Gulf Stream. Perched high in a wicker armchair astern was Herbert Clark Hoover, a floppy hat shading his eyes, a three-inch starched collar prodding his digastric muscle...
Died. Rear Admiral Franklin Jeremiah Drake, 82, retired: at his home in Washington. Rear Admiral Drake once served on the historic frigate Constitution; and as a midshipman, in 1863, chased Confederate privateers. He was descended from Sir Francis Drake, Admiral of the English Navy...