Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes later the Cabinet risked a second vote of confidence?not involving the Catholic issue?and increased their majority from 71 to 79. After one of the longest crises in French History, there was again a Government. With Tardieu and Briand in the saddle, the new Cabinet seemed certain to pursue the same conservative financial program and broadly pacific foreign policy which have been standard for three years under the Governments of Poincare (July 1926-July 1929) and Briand (July-October...
...came a really major trouble. Summoned to Manhattan to be assistant to the president of Trust Co. of America, Mr. Mitchell had hardly unpacked his grip when the Panic of 1907 arose to greet him. Solution: Skillful liquidation of Trust Co. investments, during which Mr. Mitchell gained experience later applied in the formation of his own investment company...
...loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies of the Brothers Van Sweringen. The sale also means that the Taplins have given up their aspirations for a Great Lakes-Atlantic seaboard system. Two days later the Brothers Van Sweringen gathered in a desirable pawn themselves, the Wheeling and Lake Erie. The I. C. C. authorized the Nickel Plate to issue $20,000,000 in promissory notes and to buy control of the Wheeling with the proceeds. This victory was only partial: the Commission gave...
...Then he went to Princeton Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), found its Calvinism too narrow, looked for broader horizons. In 1904 he was ordained an Episcopal clergyman. He had parishes at Morristown and Englewood, N. J., went to the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan in 1911. Six years later he was elected Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...girls who could not leave their homes could pursue their higher studies." Its first chancellor, Millard Fillmore. left after two years to be Vice President (and pinch-hitting President) of the U. S. Twelve years after his death (1874). a School of Pharmacy was added to the college. Later a Law School (1887). Dental School (1892), School of Arts & Sciences (1913) were grafted on, scattered in dirty-faced downtown buildings. After the endowment drive of 1920 all the schools were gathered in the stone buildings on the road to the country club. The site used to be the county poorhouse...