Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baker and William Ziegler Jr., are Founder Members. Associates include such men as J. Pierpont Morgan '89, Vincent Astor, Cornelius N. Bliss '97, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, George Eastman, Francis Lee Higginson '00, Otto H. Kahn, Andrew W. Mellon Hon. '26, John J. Raskob, Jesse Isidor Straus '93, and Owen D. Young Hon. '24. The entire membership now number about 200; the remaining 50 of the complete enrolment will be filled from time to time in the future
...unaware that in many cities hoodlums extort tribute from laundries. If the tribute is not paid, the laundryman may find his truck smashed, his customers' clothes ruined, his driver's pate cracked. Apparently this unwholesome state of affairs only recently came to the attention of oldtime Playwright Owen Davis. Playwright Davis, 57, does not write mediocre plays. He either writes very good ones or very bad ones. In the latter tradition are such shameless thrillers as Nellie, The Beautiful Cloak Model; Sal, the Circus Girl; Deadwood Dick...
Meanwhile President Hoover strengthened his advisory committee by appointing to it Owen D. Young and four others. The Brotherhood of Brooklyn Edison Employes publicly protested the selection of their company's president, Matthew Scott Sloan, for this committee, on the ground that he had turned out 2,000 workers last spring, was not sincerely interested in unemployment relief. Retorted Mr. Sloan: "I don't know what the Brother hood of Brooklyn Edison Employes is." Not all of the President's advisory committeemen were as opposed as he to direct Federal aid. Declared President William Green...
...help New York City through the winter on private funds a score of financiers met last week at the House of Morgan. Hosts were Morgan Partners Thomas William Lament and Thomas Cochran. Among others present were Owen D. Young, George Fisher Baker, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Charles Hayden, Charles Edwin Mitchell, Myron Charles Taylor. They organized a citizens committee, made Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manufacturers Trust Co. chairman, set out to raise $10,000,000 to give semi-public work to jobless married men. ¶ Describing the recently reorganized U. S. Employment Service as an "ineffective set-up," Fred...
Engaged. Elizabeth Parker Case, 21, daughter of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank; and Hamilton Robinson, of Princeton, N. J. Wedding date: Sept. 12. Two months ago her brother, Everett Needham Case, married Josephine Young, only daughter of Owen D. Young (TIME. July 6). Last month Mr. Young's third son, Philip, married Faith Adams of Washington (TIME...