Word: livingston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blease v. Diplomats. Last week when Senator Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, Grand Patriarch of I. O. O. F. of S. C., Past Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red Men, etc., etc., heard that 14-year-old Henry A. Howard, son of British Ambassador to the U. S. Sir Esme Howard, had injured a little girl in an automobile accident in Washington, D. C., he interrupted the business of the Senate with the following...
Elected. Robert Livingston Clarkson, 36, vice chairman of the board of directors, to be president of the Chase National Bank of Manhattan...
...younger brothers of Cinderella are so frequently found and fitted with a slipper of gold instead of glass, that the tale has lost its edge. Yet, last week, Wall Street men perused with interest the news that 36 year-old Robert Livingston Clarkson had been elected president of the second largest U. S. national bank, the Chase National,* in Manhattan. He had, they learned with no surprise, begun his financial career by functioning as a runner for $4 weekly. Furnished by newssheets only with this familiar detail, some wondered what filled in the enormous gap; a gap that for many...
Nicaraguans in smart khaki uniforms and armed with rifles, machine guns and dynamite bombs, lay in ambush on the heights commanding a narrow defile in the Nicaraguan mountains. Soon Captain Richard Livingston, U. S. M. C., commenced to lead through the defile an expeditionary force of 200 U. S. Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which...
Scouts had not informed U. S. Captain Livingston that he was leading his men into a trap. He himself was one of the first to fall, sniped. Then the machine guns crackled, the dynamite bombs boomed...