Word: morrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer of 1895, it was not matter of newspaper headline comment that the graduating class of Amherst College had voted "unanimously with one exception" that Dwight Whitney Morrow, one of its number, was "most likely to succeed," and that that one exception was D. W. Morrow, who had voted for Calvin Coolidge, his classmate...
...headlines in local newspapers took some notice in succeeding years when Coolidge '95 was elected to minor offices: Selectman, Member of the State Legislature, etc. But they took no notice of his classmate Morrow when he was made a member of the New York law firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett...
...headlines did not begin to put much emphasis on Mr. Morrow, until as a successful lawyer he was invited into another field, to become a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. To be sure, in a short time Massachusetts papers began referring to "Governor Coolidge," but Mr. Morrow had justified the judgment of his classmates so far as headlines were concerned, for the Morgan "member of the Military Board of Allied Supply who received the Distinguished Service medal for his unostentatious service abro I" was more interesting to the country than an obscure governor...
...Board, appointed by President Coolidge to investigate the nation's air policy and recommend the best means of carrying on development of military, naval and commercial aviation, last week got its inquiry under way. Dwight W. Morrow, chairman of the Board, and his associates including Senator Bingham, Admiral Fletcher, retired, and General Harbord, retired, temporarily put away all their private affairs and settled down in an intensive effort to complete their work by the third week in October and present their conclusions to the President not later than the latter part of November. Mr. Coolidge has laid down this...
...Board met last week at the White House, chose D wight W. Morrow, J. P. Morgan partner to preside over its deliberations, fixed the committee room of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce as its metting place and announce its program. "The board plans to hear first the representatives of the air services of the army, the navy and the post office, as to their present condition, organization, equipment, mission and the relation of the services to each other. The board expects thereafter to invite numerous witnesses, including Colonel Mitchell, to appear before them with criticisms and constructive...