Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chart of the Morgan family of financiers, with photographs, was both arresting and instructive among the exhibits. Beginning with Joseph Morgan (born 1790), who gained control of a Massachusetts stage-coach system, to the present John Pierpont Morgan and his children, who control railroad, steamship, telephone, telegraph and wireless systems, the family has shown a consistent "inheritance of capacity for organization and financial leadership...
Three weeks ago the Richmond Times-Dispatch, reporting the International Paper & Power Co. investigation, stated, in effect, that John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the rival Richmond News-Leader, had gone to North Carolina to buy a newspaper for I. P. & P. Publisher Bryan prepared a $500,000 libel suit against the Times-Dispatch (TIME, May 27). Last week the Times-Dispatch expressed public regrets for the statement. The Bryan suit was withdrawn...
...Manual Training School where he "prepped" for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still attending M. I. T., he got a job as assistant to the Cambridge city engineer. Most of his time was spent in driving stakes, but Engineer Kolster was proud of his position and his profession. When John Stone Stone, one of U. S. radio's experimental pioneers, offered Mr. Kolster a job in the Stone Laboratories, Mr. Kolster at first replied that he was a civil engineer and why should he bother with wireless telegraphy. Later he changed his mind...
...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
...Died. John Dickinson, 12, of Chicago, grandson of Tart-time Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; in Chicago; by accidentally hanging himself at play...