Word: vaile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establish the "Augustus Clifford Tower Fund (1927)." Restricted until a specified time, after which one fellowship to a graduate of Harvard College for study in a French university; the other to a French student for study in any graduate department of Harvard University 100,000.00Estate of Theodore N. Vail 112,300.40H. S. Vanderbilt '07: Additional, for the Medical School Dormitory, and for the salary of an Instructor of Physical, Training, in the Medical School 470,100.00Estate of Artemas Ward '99: Additional 264,271.97From partners and friends: Additional, for "The John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge...
When Theodore Newton Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., died in 1920, his associates started a fund to give awards to employes who had distinguished themselves by "conspicuous public service." Last week the Vail Medals were given for 1925-five in all, three to women. And so the public heard how Mrs. Josephine L. August, night operator at Cassopolis, Mich., frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank; how Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer...
...National Consulting Board, Director of the U. S. Council of National Defense and Advisory Commission, Secretary of the U. S. Representation on the Inter-Allied Munitions Council. After the War he returned to his A. T. & T. statistical work, soon became a Vice President. In 1919 venerable Theodore N. Vail,** once working superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, his presidency to Harry Bates Thayer, then a Vice President and Director. Last year Mr. Thayer was made Chairman of the Board, and Mr. Gifford, at 40, was made President...
...quick communication has always been wanted, profitable. (This early hostility has long given way to present comity.) The telegraph company got Thomas A. Edison to work out a rival means of telephoning. The two Manhattan men were glad to sell out to the parent Bell company. Young Theodore N. Vail came in as General Manager, got supporting money from his friends, fought to vast success...
When, at that time, it became evident that the U. S. must enter the war, the National Consulting Board selected a corps of 240 experts from every branch of industry to make a survey of the country's resources. Theodore N". Vail, dynamic Dutchman, then President of the A. T. & T., recommended W. S. Gifford to head this corps. No one outside the electrical industry had ever heard of Gifford, yet on Vail's word he was appointed. When the corps had done its work, he was chosen Director of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National...