Word: knapp
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Elected. Charles H. Knapp, lawyer, president of the Baltimore "Orioles," to be president of International Baseball League (Baltimore. Buffalo, Syracuse, Newark, Toronto, Rochester. Jersey City, Reading); at Chattanooga, Term...
Popularly obscure may be Union Carbide & Carbon, not at all is Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, last week elected Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman. Following the death (TIME, April 8 et seq.} of Myron Timothy Herrick, who was Honorary Board Chairman, George O. Knapp, Board Chairman, added Honorary to his title and Mr. Billings, member of the Executive Committee, moved into the Chairmanship. Not carbon, however, but horses provide the basis for Mr. Billings' popular fame. For to trotting (as distinguished from running) horses, Mr. Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses...
...following men made Dean's List grades at the Make-up Examinations: Haig Ajamian '29, George Alpert '29, O. A. Beamer ocC., Joel Brenner '31, R. K. Chisholm '30, E. B. Cohen '31, C. W. Duhig '29, K. W. Howard '29, F. B. Hyde '30, R. I. Knapp '29, W. F. Koetzle '30, R. K. Lamb ocC., E. G. Latham '30, Frank Litvack '29, Samuel Lowis '29, R. T. Moulton '30, J. J. O'Leary Jr. '30, G. J. Pick '32, W. S. Smith '30, R. G. Tinnerholm '30, F. M. Watkins '30, E. C. Weist '30, Abraham Wolper...
...grandfather of the new Metropolitan head served on the staff of one of Napoleon's generals. The father, also an army man, sent Frederick Ecker to a Brooklyn Sunday school of which Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of the Metropolitan, was superintendent. At the age of 16, Mr. Ecker got his first Metropolitan job. He distributed mail through the office, worked from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., received $4 a week. As his present salary is almost $4,000 a week (he is said to receive $200,000 a year), his advancement has been very considerable...
...lesser personage might have been more heavily punished. Mrs. Knapp was New York's Republican Secretary of State in 1925-27. In taking the State census she padded the payroll and forged check endorsements to the amount of some $24,175.82 (TIME, June 4). Democratic Governor Smith put Republican Attorney-General Albert Ottinger in charge of the case and the latter begged a suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home...