Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty-five years ago, Charles R. Elint began his lifelong habit of forming mergers and combines. His sobriquet "father of the trusts" has been gained by the active part which he has played in the organization of 22 large corporations, including U. S. Rubber, American Woolen, American Chicle, Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Somerset Coal. Mr. Flint is now 75 years of age, but his favorite occupation still has such a hold upon him that he is now planning the largest project of his life?a $100,000,000 merger of soft-coal companies in West Virginia, involving about...
William H. Crocker of San Francisco (banker and Republican National Committeeman), Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman (ex-President of Cornell University, now Minister to China), James R. Sheffield (Ambassador to Mexico), Ogden H. Hammond (retired banker of New Jersey), Walter J. Damrosch* (famed orchestra conductor in Manhattan, son-in-law of the late James G. Elaine). Most of these were no more likely of choice than several score of others unnamed...
...Confirmed the nomination of James R. Sheffield to be Ambassador to Mexico...
Died. George St. John Sheffield, 83, "grandfather of Yale rowing," son of Joseph E. Sheffield (founder of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University) ; at Providence, R. L, after a three weeks' illness...
...Three Sheffield students were jailed for inviting policemen into the club houses during the brawls and for turning in false fire alarms. These men were members of the Colony and Cloister Clubs...