Word: laments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carrere & Hastings, in Manhattan. In. a crowded memorial chapel, his coffin stood covered by autumn leaves overlaid with roses. Beside it, the Cross of the Legion of Honor lay on a plush cushion. Around it stood Architects Cass Gilbert, William Adams Delano, Chester Holmes Aldrich; Banker Thomas William Lament, Sculptor John Flanagan, many another notable, friend, relation. They sang "Rock of Ages," composed 100 years ago by Architect Hastings' grandfather. Someone recited Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark...
...Partner. Back of his action lay a noontime meeting held at No. 23 Wall St., Home of the House of Morgan. Although an excited Hearst reporter would have it that the Head of the House was present, actually, John Pierpont Morgan was in Europe. It was Partner Thomas W. Lament with whom conferred Charles E. Mitchell, National City Bank; William C. Potter, Guaranty Trust; Albert H. Wiggin, Chase National Bank; Seward Prosser, Bankers Trust. These men controlled resources of more than $6,000,000,000. They .met briefly; they issued no formal statement. But to newsmen, Mr. Lamont remarked that...
...National, thus renewing the old Morgan-Baker alliance which once caused J. P. Morgan to remark that the friendship of George F. Baker was the most valuable asset that he or his father had ever known. Mr. Baker, fast approaching his goth birthday, had known Panic before Morgan Partner Lament was born. Compared to Morgan-Baker efforts of the past, however, the 1929 crisis was notable through the presence of a non-Morgan bank-National City, by far the largest in the U. S.-in a position of vital importance...
Hushed Accidents. The U. S. Senate last week ordered Secretary of Commerce Lament to make public the report of every air accident, something the Secretary had refused to do for fear of shaking public confidence in aviation, of marring the reputation of operating companies, of making his Department subject to damage suits...
However, if such a thing may be suggested, the blot on the escutcheon of all Harvard men is due only in part to the causes suggested in the young ladies' lament. Vassar weekends may be too strenuous, but it seems illogical that mere walking should hold any terrors for those inured to the isolation of Cambridge classrooms...