Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert John Gary, 61, vice president & general counsel of New York Central Lines; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was a longtime foe of Federal railroad control, successfully defended (1926) his company's right to absorb the C. C. C. & St. L. ("Big Four...
Died. Edward Reynolds, 62, vice president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.; at New Rochelle, N. Y.; after a long illness. So that Postal employes would save their money, would not have to borrow, he founded the Employes' Mutual Investment Union. A foe of onetime (1913-21) Post-master-General Burleson. he fought War-time consolidation of telegraph lines, was dismissed from the government-operated Postal Co., was reinstated when the line was returned to private ownership...
...than was ever the gymnasium to Athens. Since its founding in 1846 as a medical school, it has been "an institution of learning where boys and girls who could not leave their homes could pursue their higher studies." Its first chancellor, Millard Fillmore. left after two years to be Vice President (and pinch-hitting President) of the U. S. Twelve years after his death (1874). a School of Pharmacy was added to the college. Later a Law School (1887). Dental School (1892), School of Arts & Sciences (1913) were grafted on, scattered in dirty-faced downtown buildings. After the endowment drive...
...Arthur W. Cutten, wife of the famed bull-market operator, and Mrs. Al fred T. Martin, wife of the vice president of Bartlett, Frazier & Co. (grain & stocks), returning in Mrs. Cutten's car from a Chicago theatre, were stopped by five men who growled, "Police officers!" The Cutten chauffeur was marched away up the street. The ladies were then told: "This is a holdup. No screams or we'll shoot your hands off." The loot: $500 worth of jewelry (mostly imitation...
...device, demonstrated last week by Assistant Vice President Sergius Paul Grace of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols...