Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confuse with mystery. The Brothers Behn are never interviewed, rarely photographed. Nothing less than a royal occasion persuaded Brother Sosthenes, in 1924, to pose with the nobles, the diplomats and churchmen of Spain. The occasion was, of course, the opening of the new Spanish telephone system, and royalty was present in the person of His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alphonso XIII...
...Brooklyn Sunday school of which Joseph Fairchild Knapp, founder of the Metropolitan, was superintendent. At the age of 16, Mr. Ecker got his first Metropolitan job. He distributed mail through the office, worked from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., received $4 a week. As his present salary is almost $4,000 a week (he is said to receive $200,000 a year), his advancement has been very considerable...
...Ohio; Edward G. Seubert, Standard Oil of Indiana (an absentee was Col. Robert Wright Stewart) ; Walter Clark Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey (one good Standard friend of Sir Henri's) ; and, at the other end of a long distance telephone, Kenneth R. Kingsbury, Standard Oil of California. Present also were Harry F. Sinclair, of Sinclair Consolidated, Ralph Clinton Holmes, head of Texas Corp. and of the oil committee that would have to superintend the carrying out of whatever oil-restriction agreements were made, and many another. It was a notable company that American Petroleum Institute had assembled...
...hope that the 1928 production figure will hold for 1930 and 1931 as well as for the present year. Head of the General Conservation Committee which worked out the A. P. I. program is Ralph Clinton Holmes, President of Texas Corp. (Texaco products). A potent and rapidly growing "independent" (i.e., not a fragment of the dismembered Standard), Texas Corp. in 1928 sold 26,744,806 barrels of gasoline. an increase of 36.5% over 1927 and during 1928 increased its land holdings from 2,728,000 acres to 5,475,000 acres. President Holmes went from school room to oil company...
...biographer and niece, Martha Bianchi, avoided explicitness, displayed an understandable reticence in throwing too much light on the mystery. Her editor and sister, Lavinia, reluctantly surrendered The Complete Poems, in 1922. But their completeness is gainsaid by the present, "little unexplored package" of 150 poems, some of them pondering the emptiness left by love, more of them blithely magnifying the details that filled her life...