Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most prominent of U. S. college graduates who did not attend their June college reunions was President Hoover. Another absentee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Among the most distinguished who did attend were Citizen Calvin Coolidge, who marched in the Amherst commencement parade last week, and Banker John Pierpoint Morgan who, last week, returned to Harvard for the 40th reunion of his class...
...conventional modes of employing great wealth have not appealed to Edith, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, one-time wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, lion huntress, psychoanalyst, philanthropist, social arbiter. Her method of using her money was to incorporate herself. In 1923 she organized the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, capitalized with a five-million-dollar contribution from her and $1,500 apiece from Chicago realtors Edwin D. Krenn and Edward A. Dato. Last week the E. R. M. Trust announced a new financing of eleven million dollars in five year 6% gold notes, "unconditionally guaranteed as to payment of principal...
...about 57 1/2 a pound as compared to last week's National Metal Exchange (Manhattan) quotations of around 45?. The one million pound capital of British-American Corp. will be privately subscribed, subscribers including Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, Director of Midland Bank (world's largest), Sir John Mullins, whose brokerage firm floats loans for the British Government and the Bank of England, John Howeson, Chairman of Anglo-Oriental Mining Corp., Señior Don Carlos Aramayo, Bolivian Minister to England* and head of Compagnie Aramayo de Mines en Bolivia, great Bolivian tin property. About 80% of British...
Some 6,000 U. S. high school students sloganed thus and similarly in a contest which ended last week. Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had offered a prize for a phrase which would stir public sentiment against such man-made rural ugliness as "hot dog" stands, billboards...
That won. The judges included Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wife of the Governor of New York, famed press-agents Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Edward L. Bernays, John Price Jones...