Word: lymans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference for Christian Workers at East Northfield, Mass. To his 4,000 listeners in the largest of the gatherings of ministers, students and missionaries which every summer brings to East Northfield, Dr. Jefferson's words almost seemed designated ko echo a Northfieldite who did do mighty work: Dwight Lyman Moody, doughty founder of the General Conference...
Farm-born Dwight Lyman Moody was a shoe clerk in Boston when, at 19, he was brought to Christ by his Congregational Sunday School teacher. Year later he was a $5,000-a-year shoe salesman in Chicago. There he began an extraordinary program of prayer-meetings, social work, personal evangelism, recreation, philanthropy. Short, stout, full-bearded, he became known to the Chicago Press as "Crazy Moody." He liked to stop pedestrians, inquire "Are you a Christian?" Declining for conscience's sake to fight in the Civil War, he nevertheless followed the Union armies saving souls. Critics said...
...some $25,000,000 Mr. Odium sold back to British subjects their Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd., an aggregation of prosperous utility properties controlled by Promoter Harley Lyman Clarke's Utilities Power & Light Corp. Promoter Clarke had picked them up in the 1920's while he was pyramiding his $400,000,000 holding company. In the field of financial pyramiding Promoter Clarke was an architect with considerable imagination. He it was who piled his General Theatres Equipment, Inc. on top of Fox Film early in Depression, a heroic achievement which cost Chase National Bank many a million, sent...
...stemmed down from Utilities Power & Light Corp., a traditional holding company. Working control of this holding company, however, was held by a super-holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. ("Pusco"). On top of Pusco was a private super-super holding company, and on top of that was Harley Lyman Clarke...
Sitting in Ottawa's condemned Old Court Building, the five scarlet-robed Justices and Liberal Chief Justice Sir Lyman Poore Duff approved (4-to-2) an amendment to the criminal code providing criminal prosecution for unfair business practices such as the granting of discriminatory discounts, rebates, allowances. They also unanimously approved the Farmers' Creditors' Arrangement Act, providing machinery for negotiating reductions in rural debts and interest rates...