Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mr. Harkness has been a benefactor of many institutions: he has given much to Yale; his donation of $1,000,000 four years ago established the school of Dramatic Art which called Professor George Pierce Baker '87 from Harvard to Yale to assume its leadership...
...land at Broadway and 168th Street, New York City, where the new Medical Center has been built with the alliance of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and the Presbyterian Hospital was a gift of Mr. Harkness...
Substantial as the foundation may be, the Houses could not have been built thereon had it not been for the fact that Mr. Edward S. Harkness, quite unaware of our vision for the future, formed the opinion that a subdivision of a large American college would tend to solve many of its problems. He magnanimously offered to defray the cost involved, and found at Harvard an enthusiastic welcome to his ideas...
...Chicago, thieves entered the home of J. G. Haber, sausage manufacturer. They found Mr. Haber snoozing by the radio, Mrs. Flossy Haber singing in the bathtub. Opening the bathroom door, they tossed Mrs. Haber a wrap, made her get them her jewel box, contents valued...
...advice to buy sound New York Stock Exchange securities, instructions that widows and near-paupers keep their funds in savings banks. When at carefully regulated intervals Rice stocks went soaring on the "Boston Curb," stockholders received personal telegrams from Promoter Rice, exhorting them not to sell. Specific charge against Mr. Rice was using the mails to defraud in the case of Idaho Copper...