Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might add James Leonard Paine was of the Harvard Class of '81, and concerning our two lady members Miss Carolyn H. Saunders is the daughter of a Harvard graduate and Mrs. Mary I. Gozzaldi the mother of two sons both graduating in 1914 and the grand-daughter of Samuel Batchelder, Esq., many of whose descendents are recorded in the Harvard Quin-quennial including Samuel Francis Batchelder, Class Secretary of the Class of 1893, formerly secretary of the Cambridge Historical Society, and known to many Harvard graduates for his charming and accurate "Episodes in the past history of Harvard College." Yours...
Packers. Last week, Frank R. Warton was President of Allied Packers, Inc. (Assets: $21,827,584). Samuel Slotkin was President of the Hygrade Food Products Corp. (Assets: $3,813,499). But a Warton and not a Slotkin will be Chairman of the Board of the Hygrade Corp. Reason: Hygrade last week announced final plans to buy Allied Packers, Inc., carry on a gross business of $70,000,000 yearly. (TIME...
William Collins Whitney was his tutor in Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable...
...course, they err. Señor Santos-Dumont was flying dirigibles when Otto Lilienthal in Germany, Percy Pilcher in England, Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Wrights and Octave Chanute in the U. S. were perfecting airplane wings and gliding with them, when the Langley motored plane tried to fly in 1903 and the Wright motor plane actually did fly a couple of months later. Alberto Santos-Dumont did not fly a plane until...
Wright Honors. The U. S., then, was tepid to flying. So the Wrights went to Europe. There they won recognition and financial backing. That is why, when Orville Wright believed that the Smithsonian Institution at Washington was erroneously giving the late Samuel Pierpont Langley credit for the first man-carrying airplane, he sent his Kitty Hawk plane to the Science Museum' at South Kensington, London, for preservation...