Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor J. B. Pratt A. M. '99 of Williams College will speak tomorrow afternoon on "Buddhism" in the second lecture of the annual winter series on Religion given by the Phillips Brooks House. He will speak at 4 o'clock in the Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House at a meeting open to all members of the University...
Elected. Col. Edward Andrew Deeds of Dayton, Ohio, commercial aviation tycoon (Pratt & Whitney) who supervised the development of famed Wasp and Hornet airplane engines; to be a Director of the National City Bank of New York...
...Ruth Baker Pratt of New York, widow of a Republican financier, campaigned with the experience of a society clubwoman who had come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite...
...Meaning of Music", Professor Pratt Emerson...
...bids for the Salt Creek contract were supposed to close, Oilman Sinclair was on a train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward Clingan Finney not to be too formal about the bids. The belated Sinclair bid was accordingly admitted. When Fall returned to Washington he threw out twelve other bids and awarded the contract to Sinclair. It was a contract to extract oil from...