Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auroras are led by wiry little Banker Seymour Horace ("Shorty'') Knox, of Buffalo's East Aurora Polo Club. There were no other Buffalonians on his team last week. His back was large, smiling Elmer J. Boeseke Jr. of California. Between Knox at No. 1 and Boeseke were two Long Islanders, Jimmy Mills and Elbridge ("Ebby") Gerry...
...Hinckley Sisson, 62, since 1917 vice president and mouthpiece of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. ($1,445,000,000 in assets); of heart disease; in Yonkers, N. Y., a few days after completing a term as president of the American Bankers Association. Born in Galesburg, Ill., graduated from Knox College (1892), he went to Harvard for graduate study, then into newspaper work, became editor of the Galesburg Evening Mail, later joined the staff of McClure's to write on finance and economics...
...normal way. Officers of Fierce-Arrow were chagrined, however, to have their pseudo-parent in receivership. Last week President Arthur J. Chanter of Fierce-Arrow announced that with the backing of George Franklin Rand, head of the Marine Midland group of banks, Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Seymour H. Knox and Roland Lord O'Brian, Studebaker's Fierce-Arrow holdings had been bought cut. Fierce-Arrow had a net profit of $4,770 for the second quarter of 1933 compared to a loss of $878,800 for the same period a year ago. Price paid was $1,000,000 cash...
Every Jesuit college in the world periodically gets a new president, personally chosen in Rome by the "Black Pope''-the Jesuit General. Last week, for the 16th time, Loyola University in Chicago changed presidents. Rev. Robert Michael Kelley, S.J. was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Knox Wilson, S.J. who has been eleven years on Loyola's staff...
...unusual, but not improper, for a Catholic family to give a child any middle name but a saint's. Five generations ago there was a Rev. Samuel Knox, a Scots Presbyterian minister who became president of Baltimore City College. First-born male descendants took his name, even when Jesuit Wilson's Catholic grand mother took her children into her church. Born in Chicago 51 years ago last week, Samuel Knox Wilson studied in the Mid west, taught in Jesuit institutions including Loyola, took a doctorate in history at Cambridge. At college he improved his health playing football...