Word: rodman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next night again at Madison Square Garden, Nurmi, running in the Rodman Wanamaker 1 ½ mile Special, covered that distance in 6 min. 39 2/5 sec. ?2 2/5 seconds under the record made by Ray two years ago. Ray started in the race. At the end of the third lap, pressing his hand to his side in the fashion of one stricken with a cramp, he dropped out. "Boo," went the gallery. But the gallant Ray, having many times given proof of his courage, trotted heedless to the locker rooms...
...Sims, from Charles P. Donnelly (President of the Northern Pacific Railway), Lord Byng (Governor General of Canada), Josephus Daniels, General Diaz of Italy, Admiral Beatty of England, General Pershing, Major General Lejeune, Secretary Weeks, Secretary Wilbur, Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Koontz, Georges Clemenceau, Newton D. Baker, Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman...
Began Work as Railroad Rodman...
After his graduation from the University, Mr. Eliott was a rodman with the engineering corps of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. From that position he worked steadily up to auditor, general manager, and finally president of the Northern Pacific. At present, he is chairman of that railroad and of four others, a director of the Western Telegraph Company and of the National Security Company, and a member of the executive committees of numerous other public service corporations...
...Rodman Wanamaker, patron, Maecenas of modern U. S. Art, presented a huge evening of endemic tone-fancies in the Grand Court of the John Wanamaker store. The soloists were Marie Sundelius of the Metropolitan Company, soprano, and Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who appeared on this occasion as an orator. The resources of the great Wanamaker organ, a military band, and a large chorus were also called into play...