Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teagle's maternal grandfather, Morris Clark, was first partner of John Davison Rockefeller, in the days before Mr. Rockefeller began the formation of Standard Oil. His father, John Teagle, was an early oilman. It was to drive a tank car in his father's firm (Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle) that young Walter Teagle in 1900 refused an instructorship at Cornell University, from which he had just been graduated. Then the Republic Oil Company absorbed Scofield, Schurmer & Teagle and Walter Teagle, at 23, became Republic's vice president. In 1903 he went to Standard of New Jersey, as member of its export...
...Humbug is an abstruse excursion into hypnotism with the excellent John Halliday. It quavers between melodrama and advanced psychology without notable contributions to either field...
...Roman of them all") Muldoon, onetime world's champion wrestler, longtime crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
...directed it into the earth. He proposed, as has many another with less public attention, to establish scientific laboratories deep beneath the land surface. The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling men blast gold ore from the hot rock walls...
...used for research in the codification of international law. Among the other recipients are Princeton University, Earlham College of Indiana, and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This is Pugsley's second gift to the Law School this year. On November 14, he established the John Harvey Gregory Trust, consisting of an initial grant of $400,000. Sixty scholarships of $400 each will be available at first for students from each of 60 nations named in the provisions. The income which is not used will be allowed to accumulate until the amount of each award has been...