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...even during Prohibition, when it carried on with near-beer, was Prima Co., one of the only five Chicago breweries that survived the dry years. Founded in 1892, Prima built its name on brands like Rienzi. With the coming of Repeal the sons of the founder, Hilmar and L. Wainright Ernst, recapitalized their old family business, sold some stock to the public. Early in this revitalizing program, the Ernsts ran into difficulties, had to borrow heavily from two Chicago banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings...
...happened that a good friend of Richard Upjohn was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
...grandchildren of Frank Gould): Eileen Vivien de la Poer Beresford O'Brien, Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Beresford (children of George's daughter, Vivien, Lady Decies): not to mention several dozen others of less distinguished names such as Anthony J. Drexel III, Caroline de Peyster Wainright, Gioia Bishop (various other grandchildren of George...
...Lockport (40th) district by Wet Walter G. Andrews was dry Republican Representative Stephen Wallace Dempsey whose 15 years house service had raised him to chairman of the Rivers & Harbors Committee. Both parties nominated Wets for the 25th district (Westchester) seat voluntarily vacated by Dry Republican Representative Jonathan Mayhew Wainright...
...United States can scarcely compete with French supremacy in the air. In his final report as Assistant Secretary of War, J. Mayhew Wainright stated that the Army Air Service is faced with a " serious condition of affairs." Our equipment manufactured in war-time has been practically used up. The amounts of money appropriated for the purchase of new aircraft are so small that within two years we shall have on hand less than one-half the number of aircraft necessary for normal peacetime work...