Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Star-Spangled Banner." In taking leave of Ambassador Herrick in the name of all Frenchmen, Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré saluted, "that fine and good man . . . who leaves in our memory an image which nothing can destroy!" Movingly the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" described again how Mr. Herrick came to him in 1914, when the Germans were all but at the gates of Paris...
...Times was started in 1851 by two young men who were excited by the report that Horace Greeley had made his New York Tribune earn $60,000 in one year. These founders-Henry Raymond and George Jones, both Tribune men, the one editorial and the other business-set the Times going with 100 shares of common stock, each of which they dared to believe might, sometime, be worth...
...decades the Times was known as Raymond's paper. He died in 1869 and Mr. Jones carried it on to greater wealth and prestige. Dying in 1891, he left a splendid property to his children, with an injunction that they never sell out. Within a year they were preparing to sell. The editors, fearing the paper would fall into unworthy hands, rushed about and got a company organized which bought the property for $950,000. Then came the panic of 1893. The Times barely escaped consolidation and, in 1896, welcomed the help of Adolph Simon Ochs of Chattanooga. Tenn...
...occupant of the business office by Raymond Mathewson Hood of Manhattan may look out on sooty roofs, but he will see them through a huge, tinted window with dim floral designs in the glass. The staunch desk is metallic, L-shaped, with a built-in clock...
...Oldest Mammals", Professor Raymond, Geology Museum...