Word: tappan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emergency or suspend code provisions if they go too high. Actually, with a 4?-per-lb. tariff, the ceiling of copper prices is self-limited at about 12? per Ib. by the threat of foreign competition. Chairman of the Code Authority is an oldtime copperman, President E. Tappan Stannard of Kennecott, who works side by side with a onetime tool manufacturer, Harry O. King, NRA Divisional Administrator. When the copper market developed into a three-price affair-Blue Eagle, non-Blue Eagle, and regular export copper-President Stannard had to slap a ban on non-Blue Eagle copper which...
Lending grace and charm, will be the following enchanting usherettes: Natalie Appleton, Frances Cheever, Barbara Eustis, Pauline de Frise, Louise Howe, Molly Nesmith, Marion Reggio, Eleaner Shaw, Dorothy Stone, Lucy Stone, Mary Strong, Anne Talbot, Catherine Tappan, Barbara Taylor, Frances Turner, Marion Ware, and Alice Williams...
...seduction of Socialite Charlotte Gibson of Tappan, N. Y. by Riding Master Sidney Herbert Homewood (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.): Homewood's arrival at Sing Sing to start a prison sentence of from 18 months to three years...
After his Manhattan silk house went to the wall in the panic of 1837, Lewis Tappan, casting around for a new deal, hit on the idea of selling his knowledge of other people's businesses. His Mercantile Agency grew into the largest credit rating firm in the world. Before the Civil War it was acquired by R. G. Dun who changed the official name to R. G. Dun & Co., The Mercantile Agency. He developed the art of dispassionate snooping & prying during the next 40 years until today R. G. Dara & Co. has nearly 200 offices...
Died. Mary Joan Gibson, 12-day-old child of Sidney Herbert Homewood, the Tappan (N. Y.) ridingmaster jailed last month for seducing Socialite Charlotte Ariel Gibson (TIME, Dec. 19) ; of bleeding at the navel; in Tappan...