Word: morrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day it rained. The President, not displeased, spent hours thumbing reference books on rubber this-and-that, for Harvey S. Firestone Jr., son of the tire-man, was to present his Philippine report on the morrow...
...result of its investigations, a committee headed by Dwight W. Morrow made recommendations last December for more and better aviation-principally: 1) That peacetime activities be put under a Bureau of Air Navigation headed by an additional Assistant Secretary of Commerce; that the U. S. Air Mail Service be extended, preferably by contract. 2) That an Assistant Secretary of War in charge of aviation be created; that a flying officer be placed on the general staff; that extra pay and insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken...
...Dwight Whitney Morrow, Morgan partner. Mr. Morrow is also an old friend (Amherst classmate) of Calvin Coolidge-was, perhaps, Mr. Coolidge's best friend among the great, before he became President. But, so far, Mr. Morrow has had no overt connection with the Administration, except to tackle the thankless thorny job of aviation investigation. And his influence upon Mr. Coolidge's appointments has been conspicuously negligible-much too negligible in many people's opinion...
...Fredonia, N. Y., onetime National Grange president; and Edgar B. Brossard of Utah, already serving on the Commission under a recess appointment. To the Board he added Carl Williams, Oklahoma Democrat, farmer, stockman, editor. The other railway mediators: Representatives Samuel E. Winslow of Massachusetts; onetime Senator Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky; Gloss-brenner W. W. Hanger of Illinois, public member of the old Railway Labor Board; Hywel Davies, mediator for the Department of Labor...
Wall Street has its candidates- Nathan L. Miller, Dwight W. Morrow, James Augustine Farrell. Mr. Farrell, president of the Corporation since 1911, is the keystone of its organization, the pivotal point between the executive committee and the subsidiaries. He, a great steelmaker and foreign trader, could scarcely be spared from his duties. Mr. Morrow, lawyer and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., is more available. Everyone knows that U. S. Steel continues to be an Morgan industry. Mr. Morrow is the astute friend of presidents (he is almost the chum of President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President...