Word: willson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mark in aviation last week. Paul Wadsworth Chapman, Manhattan investment banker, had watched the profitable aviation promotion of Elisha Walker (Blair Co.), Charles Hayden and Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...Robert Wheeler Willson scholarship has been founded in memory of Professor R.W. Willson for an undergraduate student concentrating in astronomy and carries a stipend of $250. The Coolidge fellowship, carrying a stipend of $1500, is open to a student of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Science. The Wales scholarship, establishment by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wales, offers $400 to assist meritorious students who may need pecuniary aid, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...MELVILLE WILLSON...
...slipped out a rear door and into a carriage; eluded detectives; drove across the bridge (Ohio River) into Indiana. There, despite several efforts to kidnap or to extradite him, and despite the pardon issued for him by Kentucky's next Republican Governor (Augustus E. Willson) in 1909, he lived until last week, a respected citizen of Indianapolis, but for reasons of his own an exile...
...Hearst, 40 in 1903, is described "as a young dilettante whose whole time and attention was devoted to making more joyous the days of his lady fair. Hearst and Millicent Willson were like a couple of children in their love making." They were married on April 28 of that year. She was a musical comedy girl...