Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date, sent it to the New York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic of 1907 vividly demonstrated the justice of his criticisms, won him recognition as a financial authority. In 1908 he went with the late great Henry P. Davison and Frank A. Vander-lip and Senator Nelson Aldrich to recently-famed Jekyl Island (see National Affairs) where the U. S. currency system was thoroughly studied, scientifically revised. In 1911, Mr. Warburg became a U. S. citizen...
Valuable manuscripts of Goldsmith which have been on display in the Widener Library Treasure Room during the past week have given way to medieval French paintings on the nativity, while a collection of letters of Lord Nelson is soon to be removed to make way for more copies of twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth century manuscripts and paintings...
...library and the room to house it are the gift of the family of the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, and are presented to Harvard as a memorial to him. The books constitute the personal library of the late senator, and the room was designed by his son. William T. Aldrich...
John H. Wells, Inc., designed yachts and commuting cruisers for F. Trubee Davison, L. Gordon Hammersley, Nelson Doubleday, Walter P. Chrysler, and a total of ten for the brothers Fisher of General Motors. Architect Wells designed his first yacht before he was graduated from Cornell...
...last week he called frequently at the office he maintained in Manhattan, at the Guaranty Trust Co. It was said of him that he "could have been the richest man in the U. S." He lived in Manhattan and at "Oak Ridge" on the site of his birthplace* in Nelson County, Virginia; and the middle name, which might have been his motto, was given him by his parents who died when he was five years...