Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive committee member of the Allied Forces for Prohibition, long a friend and beneficiary of the Rockefeller family, was in Scotland when he heard the news. Promptly he. too, plumped for Prohibition reform. While opposed to outright repeal, he favored a non-political national referendum. Another prominent Prohibitionist, Stanley High, who quit managing editing the Christian Herald to found a Dry daily in Manhattan (not yet founded) believed that it was time "for the Drys to re-examine their case." Month before he had come out for referendum...
...Canadian-American Shipping Co., onetime president of Canadian Chamber of Commerce; of heart disease, like his father (TIME. May 23); in Vancouver. For many years he represented the Dollar interests in Canada, resigned from his father's company in 1922 to branch out for himself. Able brother Robert Stanley has long headed Dollar Lines, was last week elected president of reorganized U. S. Lines...
...Robert Stanley Dollar, son of the late Capt. Robert Dollar, was elected president of United States Lines Co, of Nevada, successor company to Paul Wadsworth Chapman's United States Lines, Inc. (TIME, Aug. 17, et seq.). The new U. S. Lines was backed by the Dollar-Dawson-Roosevelt-International Mercantile Marine interests. Although Mr. Dollar will be president of the company as originally intended (business matters made him delay his election, William F. Humphrey, attorney for Herbert Fleishhacker temporarily took the post) the active management will be in the hands of Roosevelt Line officers: Philip Albright, Small Franklin, Kermit...
...During the last few years college trustees have shown an increasing disposition to choose presidents from among themselves. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, was chairman of the board's executive committee; President Stanley King of Amherst was a member of the board, as were President Walter Lee Lingle of Davidson College (N. C.) and President-elect Pat Morris Neff of Baylor University...
...John Stanley Plaskett, director, Dominion Astronomical Observatory LL.D...