Word: laments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inquired Secretary Lament in his letters to 125 operators: ". . . Will you be willing to attend a joint conference? In your judgment would such a conference bring about the results outlined by Mr. Lewis...
...received birthday greetings from Sir Oliver Lodge, Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, Lee De Forest, John Hays Hammond Jr., Robert Andrews Millikan, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament, Henry Herman Westinghouse, and many another. Their greetings indicate the hope if not the confidence that "in a few months" or "a few years" the flame of Nikola Tesla's genius will weld one more astounding new device for mankind...
...Ambassador de Madariaga counts among his intimate friends Andres Segovia, the concert guitarist, and Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Hindu rebutter to Mother India. He is, moreover, one of those writers who has enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas William Lament...
Last week Thomas William Lament, outstanding Morgan partner, went back to Exeter, whence he was graduated in 1888, strolled about the elm-shaded Yard, greeted friends and classmates, some 2,000, who like him had come back to the old school to celebrate her 150th birthday. From the Yard Mr. Lament could not see the modern, red-brick Lament Infirmary, whose crack contagious ward is an echo of the time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much...
...have been 54. He was in good health and spirits on the last day of his life. He attended a luncheon given by Percy Hampton Johnston, president of Chemical Bank & Trust Co. in honor of the U. S. Ambassador to Germany. There he chatted with his friend Thomas William Lament of the rival House of Morgan and a collection of bank presidents. Having lunched well, he remarked that it was "a fine day for golf," and went to Piping Rock Club which he helped to found years ago on Long Island's smart North Shore. There he played against...