Word: morgenthau
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Only 44 of the 10,000 essays were thought worthy of the whole jury's attention. Not one was deemed worthy of even a second prize $1,000). Of the $57,000 prize money (contributed by Cyrus H. McCormick, Edward Bok, Henry Morgenthau, Bernard M. Baruch et al.), only $2,000 was awarded-for 14 third prizes ($100 each) and 30 honorable mentions...
...slot-machine. Drop a quarter in the slot, the camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster...
Died. Mengo L. Morgenthau, 67, president of the Mirror Candy Co., brother of onetime (1913-16) U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau; in Manhattan; after a short illness...
...Woodrow Wilson $50,000 Prize Essay Contest, which closes October 1, 92 supplementary prizes, totalling $7000, will be awarded, it was announced yesterday by Mr. Henry Morgenthau Vice-President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. This is in addition to the two first prizes of $25,000 each,to be awarded to the man and woman whom the jury decide to have written the best 2500 word essays on "What Woodrow Wilson means...
...Hearty approval of the Contest," said Mr. Morgenthau, "has come from all quarters. Such men as President Green, of the American Federation of Labor Governor Ritchie of Maryland, the Honorable John Spargo, and Mr. Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, have not only endorsed the contest, but have cooperated actively. They have done so because they feel that this is not a scheme to create converts to the Democatic cause, but to broaden the outlook of our young men and young women with regard to principles and policies that far transcend in significance any division along party...