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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago the road was bankrupt, made so by the panic of 1893. A foreclosure sale wiped out hobbling debts; a new management revitalized it. Someone with good persuasive powers brought the late Edward Payson Ripley (1845-1920), to be its president. Ever since, the Atchison has paid its preferred dividends. Common dividends began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present...
...copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper. He preferred to deal with another subsoil wealth-the oil that John D. Rockefeller and his partners were selling. In that way he met the late Marcus Daly, western mine-promoter and Montana banker. John D. Ryan in 1901 (when he was 37) helped to organize the Daly Bank and Trust Co. at Butte, Montana, and later became its president. He was then, at the beginning of the century, a tall, well-set-up young executive...
Died. Belle Skinner, 47, president of the American Committee of Villages Liberes, daughter of the late William Skinner, founder of the Skinner Silk Co.; in Paris. In 1919, she adopted the entire French village of Hattonchatel, spent $1,000,000 restoring it, and was three times decorated by the French Government...
Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "A wise decision. . . . Many thoughtful ministers and laymen have expressed the belief of late that in supporting the dry and other sumptuary causes, the churches have compromised their moral appeal; that if one would persuade the spirit he should not at the same time threaten the body...
Following the Symphony Hall meeting, A. M. Barnhart 1G, president of the Harvard Democratic Club, called an informal meeting of students present at the address to plan for an intercollegiate convention to take place late in May. Twenty-one colleges will be invited to participate. Barnhart appointed an executive committee consisting of representatives of Harvard, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Boston University, Smith, Amherst and Vassar. Barnhart, besides being the Harvard representative, is chairman of this committee, of which Miss Gloria Allen of Smith is Secretary...