Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheldon Jackson, working for the U. S. Bureau of Education in Alaska, became worried about the Eskimos; they were starving. He imported from Siberia a herd of 1,280 reindeer, and some Lapp herdsmen to teach the Eskimos how to tend them.* The Eskimos, natural hunters and trappers, but with little talent for agriculture, were not successful. Carl Lomen noticed this. He wanted to try his hand with reindeer but found that by Government decree no white man could engage in the industry. He learned, however, that the Government would allow a certain contract, due to expire...
...Other famed 79ers: Frank Presbrey (advertising), Trustee Cyrus Hall McCormick (Board Chairman of International Harvester Co.): Trustee Edward Wright Sheldon (Manhattan lawyer); onetime Princeton Dean William Francis Magie; the late financier Cleveland Hoadley Dodge; the late famed Judge Alfred Salem Niles of Baltimore; the late Banker Trustee Parker Douglas Handy of Manhattan; Robert Harris McCarter, onetime (1903-08) Attorney-General of New Jersey; the late Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile, author, onetime (1913-21) Judge of Porto Rican District Court...
...Nelson, W. E. Northey Jr., M. S. O'Reilly, L. H. Rhinelander, C. H. Parker, Parker, W. F. Pedersen, Donough Prince, F. E. Remick, Brewster Righter, E. T. Ritter, W. C. Ropes, J. H. Rowell, H. E. Scott, P. M. Sheldon, F. E. Shipp, R. S. Shuman, C. V. L. Smith, C. F. Sommers, R. W. Stokes, W. K. Sturges, J. A. Thayer, H. E. Thorner, J. N. Trainer Jr., E. T. Tryon, P. A. Tyko, R. C. Walker, A. A. Weeks Jr., W. L. West, J. W. West, J. W. Welch Jr., C. A. Wheeler, H. O. Wilson...
...travel and study, has been granted to J. L. Cannon '26. The Julia Amory Appleton Travelling Fellowships in Architecture, also for a year and a half of peripatetic study, are held by C. O. Root and C. T. Larson '25. One of the travelling fellowships from the Frederick Sheldon Fund, which was established for a student of promise in any school, division or department of the University, has been awarded to R. G. Gulley. The Austin Scholarships, established in 1902, have been received by G. K. Nakashima, R. L. Snedaker, R. T. Smith '27, and T. G. Kronick. Harold Hill...
...Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of the late great Meatpacker Jonathan Ogden Armour, and her daughter, Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr., closed the affairs of the Armour estate in Chicago. The estate being insolvent for $2,000,000, Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Mitchell relinquished claims to loans for that amount. When he died (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the Chicago Journal of Commerce said of Meatpacker Armour: "He probably had the distinction of having lost more money than any man that ever lived...