Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidnapping, search narrowed down to persons surrounding the person who last saw Charles Augustus, namely, Nurse Gow. It was discovered that on the day of the abduction she had twice communicated by telephone with one Henry ("Red") Johnson, a deckhand in the summertime aboard the yacht of Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner and good friend of Charles Augustus' late grandfather, Dwight Whitney Morrow. Henry Johnson and Nurse Gow had been friends for three years. He was promptly apprehended in Hartford, Conn, at the home of a brother. Authorities attached importance to the fact that in his green Chrysler coupe...
Leader of the group was Waldo Frank. Notably absent from the entourage was Author Dos Passes, who was off in Mexico. Corliss Lamont, philosophy professor at Columbia University and son of Banker Thomas William Lamont, said he had expected to go along but was too busy. However, Mr. Frank's party mustered Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, literary critic; Editor Malcolm Cowley of the New Republic; drowsey-eyed Mary Heaton Vorse who reports labor troubles better than she writes novels; Playwright Harold Hickerson; Charles Walker, admired for a book called Steel; a 60-year-old Greenwich Village doctor named Elsie Reed Mitchell...
...raised in the public market where city bonds were selling as low as 78. For a week "Jimmy" Walker went through a series of elaborate political contortions, in an attempt to frighten the bankers with a club called Humanity. Then he calmed himself. And then Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner, Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank and Winthrop Williams Aldrich of Chase National Bank entered into a series of private discussions. Mayor Walker met them in a variety of places including Mr. Mitchell's home on Fifth Avenue. The Mayor struck $110,000,000 worth of public works...
...successor was named to fill historic Jim Farrell's post. If Steel's tradition is followed, a man trained in the trade will be elected. Mentioned as such candidates were Eugene Peeples Thomas, vice president of U. S. Steel, and I. Lamont Hughes, president of Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie Steel Co. Outside possibility was Sewell Lee Avery, famed Chicago president of U. S. Gypsum, and a director of U. S. Steel, who was last month selected to head Montgomery Ward & Co. with whose affairs the House of Morgan is also concerned...
...Board of Managers there are the following names: C. H. Strong '87; Grenville Clark '03; Grinnell Martin '10; W. H. Russell '18; B. M. Henry '24. Nominations for the Committee on Admissions are: R. S. Foss '03; E. W. Mahan '16; R. J. Hare Powel, Jr. '18; T. S. Lamont '21; F. K. Kernan '24; Lawrence Pool '28; F. H. Gade...