Word: nathans
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Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War (1916-21) and Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York, were elected to the board of trustees, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York...
LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
...year salary until 1935. A new Fox director whose election was a surprise was David K. Este Bruce, son-in-law of Andrew William Mellon. George Mallory Pynchon, senior partner of defunct Pynchon & Co?took a salaried job with Potter 6 Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange. Nathan S. Jonas, founder of Manufacturers Trust Co., Manhattan, chairman of its board of directors, resigned. This had been rumored ever since Harvey Dow Gibson & associates bought control of Manufacturers from Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. (TIME...
...Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) was no flower of Southern chivalry but a tough offshoot of Tennessee pioneers. He talked like a poor white; it is doubtful if he ever read a book on tactics; but he fought like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders...
...Nathan Phillips Dodge, Jr., of Hyde Park...