Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Wesley, staunch Tory supporter of Church and King, had not intended that his Methodist societies conflict with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...
...Taylor is the brilliant and scholarship-loving lawyer who, after triumphing in the textile and other businesses; became last January one of the triumvirate chosen to succeed the late Judge Gary as rulers of U. S. Steel (see p. 26). The other two: John Pierpont Morgan, James Augustine Farrell...
...late George C. Boldt, previously manager of a hotel in Philadelphia, was brought to New York to operate the Waldorf and became the genius of its expansion. He induced John Jacob Astor, whose home was adjacent, at 34th Street & Fifth Avenue to build the twin half of the hotel; and this was opened...
...story goes, the University has sold all three blocks complete to John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who plans a development almost fantastically elaborate...
...shrewd, included stocks in Chicago Daily News; Chicago Rapid Transit; Commonwealth Edison; First National Bank, Chicago; Pullman, Inc.; Swift & Co.; 20 Wacker Drive Building Corp. Estate income goes mainly to Widow Amanda Louise Patten. Upon her death, estate will be divided, one half to charity, one half between Son John L. Patten, Daughter (Mrs.) Agnes Patten Wilder of Santa Barbara, California...