Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ronald Lindsay of Britain and Ahmed Mouhtar of Turkey, many a foreign minister, Governor Frank G. Allen and Mayor James Michael Curley stood for an hour saluting regimental colors. When the last of the parade had passed, the Governor, the Mayor and Tercentenary Commis- sioner Herbert Parker made speeches on Boston's history, praised the Puritan fathers. Aged Robert Grant, Boston's famed author-judge (The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl, Yankee Doodle, The Knave of Hearts, The Bishop's Granddaughter; member of Governor Fuller's advisory committee on the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927) read a poem. Herewith...
...life sentence. It was Lavine who wrung a confession from Herb Wilson ("Preacher Mail Bandit") of two mail holdups and killing of a mail guard. Lavine it was who discovered the tell-tale bloodstains that led to the arrest of William Edward Hickman for the butchery of Marion Parker...
Harvard President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. LL.D. Seymour Parker Gilbert, onetime Agent General for Reparations LL.D. Frederick Perry Fish, patent lawyer, onetime (1901-07) President of American Bell Telephone Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. LL.D. Orville Wright, pioneer aviator LL.D...
While U. S. businessmen talked at Paris of a "new epoch" (see p. 44) in Berlin best business minds bent over the farewell report of Seymour Parker Gilbert who recently ceased to be Agent General of Reparations when the duties of that office partly lapsed and were partly merged into the Bank for International Settlements (TIME, May 26). Mr. Gilbert courteously waited until $345,000,000 of Young Plan bonds secured by Germany's promise to pay were successfully floated. Then he released a 350-page report in which more than 100 pages are devoted to flaying the German...
...Parker Willis, editor of the Journal of Commerce, who pointed out that the $200,000,000 applicable to Reparations is less than 50% of the average $500,000,000 a year payable by Germany on Reparations. "To say that this issue marks the beginning of the end of the Reparations problem is utter nonsense...