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...dead lay everywhere and the living dared not come near them. They lay in the streets and in the alleys, unburied in potter's field and in houses shunned by their neighbors. Their faces were emaciated and jaundiced, their bodies so malodorous as to make the living faint. Almost half the populace of the city had fled. Of those who remained, the well dared not approach the ill. Men fell suddenly in their tracks and lay dead. Frightened, orphaned children huddled together, starving, and adults hurried by and let them starve...
...plush indoor facilities. The main floor includes a splendid dining room, a club meeting room (the library of Professor Cannon's home), Mrs. Leggewie's office, a kitchen, and a pantry. Several pieces of fine old furniture, as well as some rare books, have been donated by a Mrs. Potter, a wealthy Boston widow. Other donations come from members of the faculty and language club funds. The University takes no part in financing the Center...
...Susan Anthony Potter Prize for $75 for the best essay on "Spanish literature of the Golden...
...Morgan offices at 23 Wall Street, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament called a council of war with five of Manhattan's biggest bankers: Charles E. Mitchell, William C. Potter, Albert H. Wiggin, Seward Prosser and George F. Baker Jr. (J. P. Morgan himself was in Europe.) About 1:30 p.m. they sent the "Morgan broker," Richard Whitney,* to the Stock Exchange's No. 2 Post, where U.S. Steel is traded. Cried Whitney: "I bid $205 for 25,000 shares of Steel." He moved on to other posts, cried other bids for huge blocks at the price...
Last week in Boston, after five years of testing and observation, Drs. John G. Kuhns and Theodore A. Potter of the Robert Breck Brigham Memorial Hospital made the first public demonstration of a better way to restore mobility to arthritic knees. Drs. Kuhns and Potter had finally found a satisfactory material that would last: nylon membrane...