Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inclusion in the 1929 Album is optional with many men in these categories. Former members of the class now in College who expect to take their degrees later may have their choice of inclusion in the volume or in the Album of the year in which they take their degree...
Ruth McConnell, 20, of Rochester, N. Y., took train for San Francisco one day last week. Three days later, David O. Meeker, medical student, also of Rochester, appeared at the Omaha, Neb., airport and hired a plane to take him to San Francisco. Word got around that Mr. Meeker was chasing Miss McConnell; the press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family...
...many years president of the Illinois Central Railroad. Ancestors were the Osborns of colonial Salem, Mass. On Dr. Osborn's mother's side, Nathan Gold and Andrew Ward were active in the Revolution; Reverend Ebenezer Pemberton was one of the three founders of Princeton (where Dr. Osborn later studied and taught); Jonathan Sturges was a president of the New York Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Osborn has an able younger brother. William Church Osborn, 66, Manhattan lawyer and director of rich corporations. William Church was born in rustic Chicago where an Osborn was only a man. Henry Fairfield...
...merger, last week transpired between the International Acceptance Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Co., both of Manhattan. The distinction between interest combination and merger lies in the fact that the two banks will not merge physical properties, but that their stockholders will arrange an interchange of securities. Later there will be formed an investment bank, to be known as International Manhattan Co., so that, like many another bank, the new combination will have an affiliated financing organization whose operations and earnings may be less conservative than those of the parent body. Resources of the two banks total some...
...When the greatest lion-tamer in the world started drinking, he got scared of the lions. One day the tight rope walker gave him back his nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...