Word: platt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Walter Platt Cooke, 62, internationally famed lawyer, financier, one-time president of the Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretation of the Dawes Plan; after prolonged illness; in Buffalo...
...silver, glass, etchings and prints. In the basement are studios, work rooms, a library.* Andover chooses to call the donor of its gallery "anonymous." But most people are sure it was given by Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, patron and alumnus of Andover and Yale. Headed by Architect Charles Adams Platt who designed the building, the Art Committee includes Mr. Cochran and his good friend Mrs. Cornelius Newton (Zaidee Cobb) Bliss. Because he first became interested in art through the efforts of Mrs. Bliss and her sister-in-law, the late Lizzie P. Bliss, Mr. Cochran is believed to have given...
...Cuba cannot, under the Platt Amendment, regulating Cuban-U. S. relations, set up a bank of issue without U. S. consent...
...York is already represented on the Board by Vice Governor Edmund Plate, Poughkeepsie publisher, onetime (1913-21) Congressman. Last week the President was pictured as trying to "circumvent" the law in such a way as to get Mr. Meyer on the board. Circumvention, however, was unnecessary when Vice Governor Platt conveniently resigned to join Marine Midland Corp., thus making way on the Board for Mr. Meyer. (Prohibited by law from taking a bank job, Mr. Platt can nevertheless serve the potent Buffalo-centered holding company which owns many a bank...
...headquarters during their week at Red Top preparatory to the Yale race on the morning of Friday, June 20, it was announced last night by C. F. Getchell, general manager of the Harvard Athletic Association. Getchell, who returned yesterday from a conference at Red Top with the architects. William Platt and Geoffrey Platt of New York City, stated that the new building will be ready by June 1, and that it will be located where Herrick Hall now stands, on a bluff across the railroad tracks northeast of the old Freshman quarters. A two-story frame house on a pillar...