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...cure of distemper, began soliciting funds in Britain, Canada and the U. S. Headed by the Duke of Portland, the Field Distemper Council was adorned by the Duke of Buccleugh, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Mildmay of Flete and many another noble & sporting name. Dr. Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, pathologist, and Major George William Dunkin, veterinarian, were given charge of research. Now, after nearly a decade, the Council has felt justified in disbanding, placing the crown of unqualified success upon its work. Its final report is published by the American Kennel Club's Veterinarian Edwin Reginald Blarney...
President of Standard Statistics Co. is Luther Lee Blake. He was born in Fayetteville, Tenn., started work as a telegraph operator in a Tennessee brokerage house. Later he moved to Manhattan, rose to be manager of the wire department of Laidlaw & Co. One of his duties was to answer questions concerning companies, and for this purpose he kept a scrapbook. In 1906 he thought of having pertinent facts on 100 leading corporations printed on cards which could be revised from time to time. He persuaded a printer to take a chance, used a bellboy at his hotel to distribute...
...Clergy Club of New York & Neighborhood, an organization of miscellaneous Protestant doctrinaires, assembled to protest. Dr. Walter Laidlaw, Presbyterian, the Club's founder, spoke harshly: "Bishop Manning . . . [has] taken the wrong club out of his bag for an approach to the consecration of a co-operative bishop suffragan, or played an ineffective drive in his deliverance on the polity and program of the church needed...
...Argive ships before Troy. There was former Attorney General George W. Wickersham for the American Bar Association, Bishop Charles H. Brent for the Episcopal Church, Samuel Gompers (by proxy) for the American Federation of Labor, Walker D. Hines for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw for the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, Rabbi Abram Simons for the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Miss Jane Addams and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt for the Women's World Court Committee; A. Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard; Professor Manly O. Hudson, also of Harvard; Theodore Marburg, former Ambassador...
...Mask T. K. Laidlaw...