Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elected. Samuel Wilson Parr, 71, to be president of the American Chemical Society for 1928, to succeed Dr. George David Rosengarten of Philadelphia...
What might be portended by a secret meeting, in Washington, D. C., of the following: James Wolcott Wadsworth, onetime (1915-27) U. S. Senator from New York; Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist, and Charles Hamilton Sabin, Manhattan banker; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Detroit lawyer-philanthropist; Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware industrialist-educator; Benedict Crowell, Cleveland engineer; Senators Walter Evens Edge of New Jersey and William Cabell Bruce of Maryland; Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland; and many another...
Said Chief Justice Taft, descriptive: "The Langley Medal was established in memory of the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Samuel Pierpont Langley. During the last 15 years of his life Dr. Langley's primary interest was in making possible man's flight...
...Christian Era, and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for his gifts to Jewish causes. Jews & Jewesses saluted included: Sculptors Jo Davidson, Jacob Epstein, Max Kalisch; Aviation Promoters Daniel Guggenheim, Harry F. Guggenheim, Charles A. Levine; Benchers & Barristers Benjamin N. Cardozo, Arthur Garfield Hays Carolyn Fromberg Loeb, Joseph N. Proskauer, Samuel Untermyer; Civic Benefactors Albert M. Greenfield (Philadelphia), Albert S. Lavenson (Oakland, Calif.), Abraham C. Ratshesky (Boston), Mortimer L. Schiff (New York), Moses Schoenberg (St. Louis); Civic Workers Edward A. Filene (Boston), Adolph Lewisohn (New York); Educators Cyrus Adler, Abraham Flexner, Felix Frankfurter; Education Benefactors George S. Cohen*, Simon Guggenheim, Louis...
Carl Laemmle, Samuel L ("Roxy") Rothafel, Harry M. Warner, Adolph Zukor; Musicians Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Mischa Levitski, Nikolai Sokoloff; National Benefactors Julius Rosenwald, Aaron Sapiro...