Word: marcellus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...police forces, to private protective agencies (which now have to get approval of the U. S. Attorney General for purchase of a Tommy gun), to the U. S. Marines, to many a European and South American army, Thompsons were sold. The General's son, Colonel Marcellus H. Thompson, third in the family line to graduate from West Point, resigned from the army and went into the business as vice president and general manager...
BOSTON, May 12 (UP)-Marcellus Edward Wilde, 48, of Arlington Street, Cambridge, was found shot dead in a studio apartment on Beacon Street tonight. The occupant, Miss Alice Tripp, 21, told police that Wilde, an acquaintance, shot himself in the right temple. Wilde was a member of the class of 1915 at Harvard, but abandoned his studies to join the Lafayette Escadrille for World War Service...
President Marcellus Lindsey Joslyn tried to explain this away as a product of the company's pension system started in 1919. If his pension system did not deserve all the credit, yet it still remains after 18 years quite as notable as this year's increase in profits. The company neither advertises nor seeks publicity, so the Joslyn plan never made much stir until last winter when the company prepared to sell $1,350,000 worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes...
Stockbroker Starr and Frank G. Marcellus, who claims he is a cousin of the late Mrs. Garrett, quietly became administrators of the residuary estate, but four years passed before a public accounting was made at the instance of persons who became aware of the fortune. Two years ago, when the court was to pass on the audit, the fourth floor of Philadelphia's City Hall was as crowded as a County Fair, and Case No. 2552 of 1932 became a real problem for the Orphans' Court which William Penn set up 248 years ago. Within four months...
...Cheever Porter's Irish Setter Milson O'Boy: best-in-show award at the Morris and Essex Kennel Club dog show, biggest ever held in the U.S. with 3,175 exhibits, 35,000 spectators; on Marcellus Hartley Dodge's "Giralda Farms," at Madison...