Word: peres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate, Hocking Valley. Pere Marquette, Erie. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Bessemer & Lake Erie...
Cited by the Commission were two such holding companies: Alleghany Corp. controlled by the Van Sweringen interests (Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette. C. & O.) and Pennroad Corp., controlled under a voting trust by the president and two directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...rare Schomburgk's deer, one a world record. The home of this deer is still a mystery. It is supposed to be North Siam, but no white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...
After a 45-minute chat, Mr. MacDonald sped from M. Briand's office to the Gare de Lyons. Before his train chuffed out he talked to French correspondents with unwonted bonhommie. "I couldn't pass through Paris without seeing M. Briand, messieurs!" cried Pere MacDonald while Daughter Ishbel beamed. "Say simply that two old friends have met. The visit was purely personal. My old friend 'happens' -I place the emphasis on 'happens'-to be Prime Minister of France...
Many an artist has been accused of insanity. There was the bovine Rousseau who was the laugh of Paris in his day and "Pere" Cezanne of whom the worthies of Aix said, with a shrug: "Surely he is mad." Today the sale of a Rousseau or a Cezanne is an art event. They run into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions...