Word: rieber
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...about 1900. One year later oil gushed in Texas and Gates plunged heavily in a struggling little business known as Texas Co. To sell its oil abroad, Texaco bought up a fleet of tankers. One of the tankers was captained by a blond, husky stripling of 22 named T. Rieber. Captain T. Rieber would not even commit himself as to his birthplace, which was in Sweden, or his first name, which was Torkild. This close-mouthed independence so pleased the rulers of Texaco that Captain Rieber was soon sent ashore. With a mind for nothing but work, he learned...
...portrait of President Eliot, just completed by Mrs. William Rieber, who painted the well-known group entitled "Three Harvard Philosophers," which is now hanging in Emerson Hall and represents Professor William James '69, Josiah Royce and G. H. Palmer '64, is to be on exhibition in the Harvard Club of Boston from March...
...effort is being made among alumni of the University to secure sufficient funds to purchase the painting of Professor Royce, Professor James, and Professor Palmer, known as "Three Harvard Philosophers." The portrait is the work of Mr. Winifred Rieber, of Berkeley, California, and in the event of its being acquired by the University will probably be hung in the Widner Library...