Word: plunkett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea was catching on elsewhere. Last week in the ladies' lounge of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, 70 women started a ten-week lecture course in investment sponsored by New York University. All had signed up (at $35 each) to hear Finance Professor Guy Downs Plunkett lecture on such topics as "Can I Profit from the Financial Pages of the Newspapers?" The professor thought they could...
...Anne Crone's first novel and turned it down cold. Then an idea came to Miss Crone, 32, an Oxford graduate, and a teacher of languages in an Irish girls' school. She would send her manuscript to an old patron of Irish letters, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. The Irish storyteller and playwright liked it so much that he volunteered to write an introduction, in which he calls Bridie Steen "one of the great novels of our time, not quite to be forgotten in a hundred years." With his handsome assist, Bridie Steen found...
Died. George Noble, Count Plunkett, 96, Irish literary and art patron, and fiery fighter for a free Eire; in Dublin. The bush-bearded, pouch-eyed papal count, first Sinn Fein candidate to be elected to the Irish Parliament (in 1917), served the new republic as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919-21) and Fine Arts...
Last week Massey-Harris got a rejuvenating shot in the arm. The man who administered it was Toronto's Edward Plunkett Taylor, 46, a round-faced, blue-eyed hustler who is Canada's No. 1 industrialist. Taylor went into Massey-Harris five years ago as a director. By last week he and his associates had bought up 35% of Massey-Harris common stock-and control. First thing that Taylor did was reorganize the board of directors, bringing in such energetic new members as Quebec's shipping magnate Joseph Simard. Said Eddie Taylor: "We plan to increase [production...
...Laude: David Plunkett French, Richard James Grigg, Jr., Frederick Draper Holton, Donald Walker Lanning, Norman Robert Silberg, Vladmir Irakly Toumanoff, and John Warren Vannorsdall...