Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Williams hobby is marine exploration. In connection with Vincent Astor, Marshall Field and Henry D. Whiton, and under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society, he financed Explorer William Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands. On Galapagos there is a volcano now named Harrison Williams. In...
Tall, calm, quiet Waddill Catchings, president of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., is widely recognized as a Coming Man of Wall Street. He graduated from Harvard (1901), took a law degree (1904), entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export...
U. S. Leather Co. (Makes one-third of all the sole, belting and harness leather used in the U. S. In June, William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. resigned as first vice president, remained a director. Last year Hiram S. Brown resigned from the presidency to become head of Radio-Keith-Orpheum...
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (Second only to General Electric. In June F. A. Merrick succeeded E. M. Herr as president. Sales have averaged about $165,000,000 yearly for six years.) Net profit, first half 13,131,881 7,792,952
William Wallace Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania R. R., lost six blooded horses, a calf, farm machinery, half of his crop of hay and wheat, when lightning and fire smote the barn of his estate near Philadelphia.