Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the news overshadowed everything else at Vanderbilt's commencement exercises, even an address by the Bank of England's eminent Economist Sir Josiah Stamp, for not only had James Hampton Kirkland been the "Chance" longer than almost anyone could remember but his 44 years at Vanderbilt had spanned one of the most successful university presidencies...
Recently hung in the eighteenth century gallery at the Fogg Museum is a family group by the English artist, Arthur Devis. The work is entitled Sir Josiah Vanneck and his Family...
...those indolent M.P.s who rarely put in an appearance rolled up in full force, jam-packed the House so thickly that Laborite M.P. Richard Gibson had to take refuge in one of the galleries with a host of peers, foreign diplomats and other bigwigs, including the famed economist Sir Josiah Stamp and Bank of England's eccentric Governor Montagu Norman. So staggering was the Budget speech which all were keyed up to hear that Montagu Norman was reported next day to have "looked bewildered as if he could not follow or believe what he heard...
...History of Harvard University," written in 1840, Josiah Quincy, of the Class of 1790, president of Harvard College from 1820 to 1845, tells of a time during the presidency of Charles Chauncey when the financial condition of the College was so bad that a gift from Portsmouth of 60 pounds a year for seven years was as "pennies from Heaven...
...Hayden millions will be administered by his executors-President Arthur J. Ronaghan of Equitable Trust Co., Controller Edgar A. Doubleday of Hayden, Stone & Co., Vice President & Treasurer Erie V. Daveler of Utah Copper Co., his younger brother, Josiah Willard Hayden, a roly-poly Boston epicure to whom he left a life interest in a $2,000,000 trust fund. Except for the $1,000,000 trust fund bequeathed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Foundation will eventually manage all the trust funds Banker Hayden allotted to relatives and friends, including a $30,000 annuity for Anita Stewart de Braganga, widow...