Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were the claims to size made by the new First National Bank of Atlanta, Ga. To form the institution last week the Atlanta and Lowry National Bank announced plans to merge with the Fourth National Bank. Combined resources will exceed $140,000,000. Presidents of the merging banks are John K. Ottley and T. K. Glenn, identified with Coca Cola Co. Worcester. In Worcester, Mass., the Worcester County National Bank, The Second National Bank of Barre and the North Brookfield National Bank merged, maintaining their identity and officials...
...world's highest medical tributes of last week went to two Johns Hopkins' medical men-William Henry Welch and William Holland Wilmer. To Dr. Wilmer the University dedicated the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute and to Dr. Welch the William H. Welch Medical Library. At the same time, the University inaugurated a Department of the History of Medicine and installed Dr. Welch as its head. Dr. Wilmer. William Holland Wil mer, 66, tall, blondish son of an Episcopal Bishop, is incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had.* Every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland...
...Engaged. John Kirtland Colgate, son of Russell Colgate (soap company director); and Miss Florence Viola Manuel; at Stockton, Calif...
Resigned. Curtis C. Cooper; from the presidency of General Motors Acceptance Corp. and the chairmanship of General Exchange Insurance Corp., to be succeeded in both positions by John J. Schumann Jr., vice president of the Acceptance Corp...
Birthday. John Dewey, most famed U. S. pedagog-philosopher; in Manhattan. Age: 70. For three days he listened to fellow pedagog-philosophers gathered by a national committee around Columbia University, speak on "John Dewey's influence in the Schools," "John Dewey's Influence on Education in Foreign Lands," "The Philosophy of John Dewey," "John Dewey in Social Welfare...