Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John King Fairbank '29 of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship from South Dakota it was announced yesterday. Fairbank has been prominent in Harvard debating and was one of the nominees for class orator in the recent elections. He prepared at Exeter and transferred to Harvard from the University of Wisconsin...
...Hulburd Johnston 164 Ballots thrown out 3 -- Total 422 CHORISTER Richard Stedman Holden 165 James Richard Carter 134 Philip Hamilton Rhinelander II 118 Ballots thrown out 5 Total 422 POET Robeson Bailey 211 Philip Ives Dunne 203 Ballots thrown out 8 Total 422 ORATOR Lawrence Trevor Grimm 201 John King Fairbank 143 Norman Winer 73 Ballots thrown out 5 Total 422 IVY ORATOR Alan Russell Blackburn Jr. 180 James Henry Sachs 145 Peter John White Bove 92 Ballots thrown out 5 Total 422 ODIST Chauncey Devereux Stillman 212 Philip Hichborn 204 Ballots thrown out 6 Total...
...London a King's Bench decision was handed down restraining the Press from subscriptions getting by what is known as a "Football Competition...
With a Baltimore store, Thomas Fortune Ryan went to work as an errand-boy for $3 a week; with William Collins Whitney he was a broker in Wall Street; with King Leopold II of Belgium he developed the diamond fields of the Congo Free State; and with a fortune estimated between one and five hundred million dollars, last week, he died...
...fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization of the American Tobacco Co., with which he gained a two-thirds interest in the foreign market, he was comparatively alone. King Leopold II asked him for help in exploiting African diamond mines; and in rooms where chandeliers sparkled dimly like uncut diamonds, Thomas Fortune Ryan sat and talked with Harry Payne Whitney, Daniel Guggenheim and John Hays Hammond, persuading them to share this spectacular venture...