Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some seven years ago Jeremiah Milbank, Manhattan banker, paid a call at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., asked to "see the man who handled Southern Railway Co.'s affairs.'' Shown into the office of Thomas Cochran. Banker Milbank found John Pierpont Morgan also there. The three tycoons chatted, Mr. Milbank finally said he would like to see Southern pay some dividend on its common stock. The Morgan men explained that Southern's intrenchment policy put dividends out of the question...
...reasoned thus: Dr. Engle was studying pituitary hormones, which can stimulate early sex maturity. Dr. Jungeblut was studying infantile paralysis, which usually occurs before sex maturity. Might there be some connection between pituitary hormones and infantile paralysis? Why not combine their studies? The monkeys at least would thank them. Jeremiah Milbank's International Committee for the Study of Infantile Paralysis furnished the money, the researchers researched jointly...
...climb from one major company to another. Within a big system there sometimes is a definite succession: In the case of Illinois Central the president is usually trained in the presidency of subsidiary Central of Georgia, although this was not true of the last Georgia Central president, John Jeremiah Pelley, who became head of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...production of the same author, has been presented in this country as a grand opera, but never as a drama. "The Chaulk Circle" is an oriental fantasy which has enjoyed great success in Germany under Max Reinhardt. And finally there is a play by the German author Stefan Zweig "Jeremiah...
...pure scientist, the plant engineer, and the successful business administrator." Graduates of Hill School and Cornell of six or seven years ago wondered if President Tone is any relation to popular, broadshouldered Jerry Tone who used to catch on the Cornell baseball team. They are father & son. Jeremiah Tone now works as one of his father's salesmen. Another son is Franchot Jerome Tone, actor (Pagan Lady, Green Grow the Lilacs...