Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five agents of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pulled out of the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, a bedraggled police dog, whose master, one John Schweighart, had put him into the river at Albany; that he might swim to Manhattan in a shorter time than the human mother who last accomplished this tiresome feat...
...Chick Evans−were put out of the tournament. Voigt, after beating Sweetser, played through the quarter finals to meet Phil Perkins, the British Walker Cup Captain, in the semifinals. Bobby Jones, playing better every day, after going to an extra-hole to eliminate Gorton, the homeclub entrant, beat John Beck...
Typographically uninteresting, written in the stiff, undeviating style of all worthy financial announcements, an advertisement, which measured 8½ inches long, three columns wide, made known last week without obvious effort to do so, that John Davison Rockefeller III had made his debut on a directorate. Said the notice, printed in Manhattan dailies: "To serve adequately the banking needs of the Harlem section of New York City, the Dunbar National Bank of New York . . , will open for business September 17, 1928.'' It said the bank was "established particularly to serve the business and personal banking interests of Harlem...
Tucked away in the alphabetical list of directors in agate type was the name, John D. Rockefeller III. Ignorant of one of the pet Rockefeller philanthropies, a superficial observer might wonder why a Rockefeller, a Herbert Lee Pratt (Standard Oil), a Henry Elliott Cooper (Equitable Trust Co.). should be interested in a comparatively puny bank whose capital was announced as $500,000, whose declared purpose was to serve Harlem's Negroes...
...significant that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. should pick the Dunbar National Bank for his son's first financial activity.* The Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, named for the Negro poet (1872-1906), and built by Rockefeller money, will house the bank...