Word: potters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was more perturbation in the Manhattan offices of the Guaranty Trust Co. last spring when two $50,000 kegs of gold fell into the Hudson River than there was exaltation last week when Chairman Sabin and President Potter announced that the bank's resources were $1,052,211,198. The keg accident was unusual...
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...
...office of secretary-treasurer of the Class of 1930 was won by Josiah Warren Potter '30, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who prepared at Riverside High School before coming to Harvard. Potter has been a member of the University football squad for the past two years and also participated in the University track meets as a shot putter...
...results of the polling are as follows: For President G. C. Holbrook 519 R. H. O'Connell 706 T. F. Mason 805 W. P. Lage 841 For Vice-President G. L. Lewis 550 Bernard Barnes 620 F. S. Davis 695 For Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Potter 619 H. T. Wenner 678 C. E. Galston 815 H. T. Holbrook...
...merely promising young Congressman expects to be lionized and fêted when, in Chicago by Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc-Cormick, Mrs. Potter Palmer or other Tycoon's lady. But a third, second or first secretary of almost any embassy may aspire to these honors. They were bestowed in Chicago, last week, by Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Palmer upon the Second Secretary of the Persian Embassy, one Prince* Mozaffar Firouz. The Secretary-Prince is slender, with large nose and an intelligent expression. Obliging, he read to smart Chicagoans a lecture: The Regeneration of Persia. Tidily...