Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mount Auburn Street, and all intersecting streets will be shut off from traffic for blocks around, and officers will patrol the immediate neighborhood. In the vacant house opposite the Club a watch will be stationed, and detectives will be posted in windows overlooking the scene...
Sirs, Please insert my name in the place left vacant by Ex-Subscriber Longwell, 1st Lieut., Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, San Juan, P. R., whose profession is legalized murder but whose morals and ethics otherwise seem impeccable. C. A. SPICKLER...
...white-maned at 69, "Reverent" Powell (as many a parishioner calls him) is accustomed to rule his flock like a benign autocrat. Indeed he and his officers are empowered to declare vacant any of the numerous posts in the church. But last week Pastor Powell was meeting open defiance-from the Friendly Society's president, a tall, blue-black West Indian named Samuel Skerritt. Six months ago, recalling that the Friendly Society books had not been audited for four years, Pastor Powell asked for a look at them. Samuel Skerritt seemed evasive. And when Pastor Powell kept on asking...
...second ex-President of the U. S. to become a director of New York Life. Calvin Coolidge faithfully attended directors' meetings from 1929 until his death. Director Hoover revealed last week that New York Life had urged him in 1933 to accept Mr. Coolidge's vacant chair, before they finally offered it to Dr. Angell. And everyone expected last week that the company would pay for Director Hoover's transportation across the continent to attend monthly meetings, as they had paid Director Coolidge's expenses when he went down from Northampton. Mr. Hoover will receive...
Conspicuously vacant at last week's meeting was the chair in which Thomas Aylette Buckner has sat for 33 years as director, four years as president of New York Life. This chubby-cheeked little man had gone to St. Petersburg, Fla. to attend a meeting of insurance agents. In his 54 years with New York Life President Buckner has penned many a homely sermon to inspire his salesmen.* Restless, singleminded, immensely capable, he began as an office boy in Milwaukee, attracted the attention of New York Life's Agency Inspector George W. Perkins (who became a Morgan partner...