Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD BROWN Adzigian, 3b rf, O'Reilly Bilodeau, 1b 3b, Appleyard Owen, rf cf, Elrod Tittmann, lf 1b, Butler Gibbs, cf 2b, Brown Woodruff, ss p, Murray Maguire, c lf, Slader Hayes, 2b ss, Levinson Walsh, p c, Hart...
...90th birthday last week Dr. House received nine bound volumes, each containing 90 greetings from friends all over the world. There were special messages from Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, Nicholas Murray Butler. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Thomas Edison and the presentation to the school of a 90th Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles...
...last few years the only publicly-owned stock in United Electric Light & Power Co., a Consolidated Gas subsidiary, has been owned by the wife of Thomas E. Murray Jr., currently receiver for Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. All the rest of the stock was owned indirectly by Consolidated Gas. But merger of United Electric with other Consolidated power properties operating on the island of Manhattan was blocked by Mrs. Murray. Not that Mrs. Murray refused to sell her stock: she obligingly offered it to Consolidated last winter-at $4,500 per share...
...better knew the value of those 30 shares than Consolidated. But the idea of paying $135,000 for a minority interest whose book value was only $1.800 was too much even for the great New York City utility. Last week, however, either Mrs. Murray relented or Consolidated reconsidered: the utility announced that at long last it had acquired the famed holdout shares. Price: unrevealed...
...adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler...