Word: lumberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mont Laurier, Quebec. Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail...
When easy-going bushy-whiskered Lumberman George Henry Leatherbee left an $84,000 trust fund to Harvard on his death in 1911 for free lectures on finance, open to the public, it was not in anticipation of any need for education of businessmen on the labor union problem. Upon accretion of the fund to where it yielded the stipulated $3,000 income in 1920, the first lecture series was given on "Real Estate Fundamentals." It drew six students. By 1934, 376 capitalists flocked to hear Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, fresh from the U. S. Treasury, lecture on inflation possibilities...
...prosperous, top-ranking college, should have no trouble recruiting two facultymen of suitable calibre. A perambulating president who likes the world better than his Northfield office, Carleton's Cowling has six onetime college presidents on his faculty, a high-powered board of trustees including, besides Lawyer Kellogg, Lumberman Frederic Somers Bell and Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo...
...look like a Valkyrie as well as sing like one. She spends what spare time she has playing twelve kinds of solitaire in her Manhattan hotel apartment, window-shopping with her 19-year-old stepdaughter Anna, who is studying interior decoration. Flagstad's husband, a wealthy Norse lumberman named Henry Johansen, joined them in Manhattan last month...
...Tacoma Lumberman John Philip Weyerhaeuser, whose 10-year-old son George was safely ransomed from kidnappers for $200,000 in May, 1935, established at Seattle's Children's Orthopedic Hospital an endowment in memory of 10-year-old Charles Mattson of Tacoma, murdered by a kidnapper two months ago (TIME, Jan. 11). George and Charles used to play together...