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...grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah Gammon told William Deering that his machine was better than any built by powerful old Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. William invested $40,000 in the concession, moved to Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into...
...McCormick-Deering farm machinery, Harvester's No. 1 line, is not to be confused with the product of independent Deere & Co., whose rise to the status of a substantial competitor dates from the famed consent decree of 1918 which ended the "Harvester Trust...
...Cora Urquhart Brown Potter, 76, who jolted Victorian morals by deserting society to become the stage sensation of two continents; of pneumonia; near Cannes. In 1912 she retired to the Isle of Guernsey, studied Yogi philosophy, wrote comforting letters to her much-troubled daughter, Anne Urquhart Potter ("Fifi") Stillman McCormick. Died. David Sheldon Barry, 76, long-time newspaper correspondent, onetime (1919-33) Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate; of heart disease; in Washington D. C. Died. William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, 84, oldtime champion of bimetallism on whose coattails William Jennings Bryan rose to fame; of peritonitis; in Monte...
...Frankly, I do not understand British policy," said Benito Mussolini to his favorite U. S. Newshen Anne O'Hare McCormick in Rome recently. "Do you understand...
...good many English peace-lovers would like to get rid of you," remarked Mrs. McCormick, and II Duce laughed in agreement. "Perhaps they won't find that so easy," he answered. "J'y suis. J'y reste -44,000,000 multiplied...