Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parker Fellowships for study in the natural sciences have been awarded to Henry S. Bennett 3M, of Tottori, Japan, and to Carl K. Seyfert '23, of Cleveland. Bennett received his A.B. degree from Oberlin College in 1932 and is at present a candidate for his M.D. at the Medical School. He will study anatomy and physiology. Seyfert, who will study astronomy, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude and received...
...Caryl Parker Haskins 2G,--a special Danto Prize of $59 for an essay entitled "The Religious Background of the Divine Comedy...
...Parker & Co., founded in the last century, specialized in public utilities controlling the management of more than a dozen small ice, electric and water companies. In 1929 Parker & Co., at the inspiration of Bowen Tufts, founded an investment trust called Seaboard Utilities Shares. After the market crash some $1,500,000 in cash was transferred from Seaboard's treasury to the Parker treasury-a transfer easily effected because the treasurer of both firms was the same man. Bowen Tufts and associates, according to the testimony of one witness, dumped this cash into the market in a vain attempt...
...same year (1929) Bowen Tufts founded another investment trust, Railroad Shares Corp., which was to buy stocks & bonds of U.S. and Canadian railroads. Parker & Co. bought all the stock of Railroad Shares (800,000 shares), giving in payment its own note for $8,000,000 Parker & Co. sold the shares to the public, reducing its note to $3,323,000. As in the case of Seaboard Utilities, Parker officials were the managers of Railroad Shares, and Parker & Co. availed itself of the opportunity to "borrow" $1,100,000 in cash...
...altogether funny. Last week her second book, a collection of short stories, not only deepened but broadened the impression her first one made. In Time: The Present Author Slesinger shows herself the somewhat proud possessor of what professors call "creative imagination." She has already been favorably compared with Dorothy Parker. Some of these stories may remind her readers of the late Katherine Mansfield...