Word: laments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Mr. Lament, with strong undergraduate support...
...younger son, Corliss, is temporarily engaged in a job less thoroughly understood by the American public. He is a senior at Harvard. His job might possibly be described as the pursuit of truth. But there appeared, last week, to be a difference of opinion between Mr. Corliss Lament and certain Harvard authorities as to the limits within which the truth might be publicly pursued...
American bankers who were present in Mr. Morgan's library as a "gallery" were: Thomas Cochran, Thomas W. Lament, Russell C. Leffingwell, Dwight W. Morrow. All are members of J. P. Morgan...
...lower sum is probably the more accurate guess, since its circulation is about 30,000, with a Saturday edition of about 55,000. A large part of the purchase price is understood to take the form of the assumption of obligations contracted by the present owners to Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. when they purchased the paper from him less than two years...
...death of Henry Villard, Oswald Garrison Villard, his son, inherited the paper, In 1917 the younger Villard sold The Post to Thomas W. Lamont. Mr. Lament was understood to have spent much money on The Post, and it was common talk that he "dropped a million or two" in it. Early in 1922 he sold the paper to a syndicate of 34 men headed by Edwin T. Gay and including Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. Willard Straight, Clarence M. Woolley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marshall Field, Charles C. Burlingham, Cleveland H. Dodge, August Heckscher, Finley J. Shepard, George W. Wichersham, Paul...