Word: levies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Associated with Davison was the late Levi P. Morton, chairman, and the late Alexander J. Hemphill, president. Among their vice presidents was swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, Massachusetts farmer's son who in youth had been a flour dealer's clerk, and blond William Chapman Potter, Chicago-born mining engineer. The two were brothers-in-law, their wives the daughters of the late Paul Morton, variously President of the Burlington Railroad, Secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt. President of the Equitable. Mr. Potter still fondly calls himself a mining engineer, rather than a banker. He was long associated with the Guggenheims...
...more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...
Rabbi Harry Levi of Temple Israel in Boston will lecture Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House, on "Judaism." Rabbi Levi's lecture will be the third of the annual winter series on Religion given by the Phillips Brooks House, and is open to all members of the University...
December 9--Rabbi Harry, Levi, Temple Israel, Boston, on "Judaism...
...Died. Levi W. Hutton, 68, capitalist & philanthropist of Spokane, Wash.; of diabetes; in Spokane. His fortune was made in the lead-silver mining boom in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Most modern is the Hutton settlement in Spokane, where 80 orphans are housed on 300 acres...