Word: rayner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drugs. Louis K. Liggett Co., subsidiary of Drug, Inc., in Chicago this year has bought the seven drugstores of Buck & Rayner and the five of Postes Drug Co.; last week was negotiating to buy the 15 of MacLean Drug...
...There have been six Jewish U. S. Senators?Philip Judah Benjamin, Louisiana (1853-61); Simon Guggenheim, Colorado (1907-13); Benjamin Franklin Jonas, Louisiana (1879-85) ; Isidor Rayner, Maryland (1904-10) ; Joseph Simon, Oregon (1897-1903) ; David Levy Yulee,* Florida (1845-51 and 1855-61). There were ten Jewish Representatives, no Jewish Senators in the 69th Congress. A Jewish Cabinet officer was Oscar Straus who was Secretary of Commerce & Labor in Roosevelt's Cabinet (1906-09). Probably the highest public office held by a U. S. Jew today is the seat on the U. S. Supreme Court bench occupied by Louis...
...Horace George Rayner who thought himself Merchant Whiteley's illegitimate...
...following men were elected to membership in the Dramatic Club after a six weeks' competition: art department, George Francis Robinson Heap '28 of Grand Haven Mich.: Walter Egan Trevett '27 of Cleveland, O.; subscriptions. George Lane Glasheen ocC. of Cambridge; James Rayner Harper '28 of Ottumwa, Ia.; Theodore Nelson Stensland '28 of Chicago; properties, Donald Kuinm Howard '28 of Edgewood Pa.; James Carey Thomas Flexner '29 of New York City: stage, Marvin Fiske Burt '28, of Freeport, Ill.; George Wing Dryer '27 of Birmingham, Ala.; electrical, Murry Nelson Fairbank '28 of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; George Sutro Lowenstein...
Died. Mrs. Bessie Rayner Belloc, 95, mother of Hilaire Belloc, famed British writer; in Slindon, Essex, England. An ardent suffragist, she, together with Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, signed the first petition asking for suffrage for women ever presented to Parliament...