Word: witte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gehlbach wrestling with the control stick, vainly trying it at every conceivable position," Commander De Witt C. Ramsey, the Navy's official observer, told newsmen afterward. "Using an old pilot's trick, he even stood upright in the cockpit, hoping the wind pressure on his body would right the plane. Finally, at 2,000 ft., with the earth rushing at him 200 ft. a second, he bailed out and descended easily while the plane hurtled into a nearby pine tree...
...acquired an extensive collection of art books, was glad to let fellow students use them. The Frick art library grew & grew. A librarian had to be hired, then assistants; finally a house was built to hold it all. The Frick Art Reference Library, like Sir Robert Witt's in London, chose to specialize in photographs of works of art. It did not content itself with buying prints of pictures in museums, private collections and dealer galleries. Instead, it put special photographers under contract in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, the U. S., sent them to obscure collections, little-known...
...that Rev. Merton Stacher ("Mert") Rice of mammoth Metropolitan Methodist Church has twice declined a bishopric. Likewise nationally known in their respective churches are Presbyterian Joseph Anderson Vance, Quaker Morton C. Pearson, Rabbi Leo M. Franklin. Congregationalists Charles Haven Myers and Warren Wheeler Pickett, Disciple of Christ Edgar De Witt Jones...
Present for MOP's oldtime bankers was Partner George W. Bovenizer of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. For MOP's present bankers there was Partner S. Parker Gilbert of the House of Morgan. Earle Bailie spoke for J. & W. Seligman & Co., De Witt Millhauser for Speyer & Co. Jesse Jones brought his financial adviser, Adolph Augustus Berle Jr., and his chief railroad examiner, John W. Barriger 3rd. Both the Interstate Commerce Commission and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman sent representatives. The bondholders sent potent members of protective committees...
...Farmer Takes a Wife (by Frank B. Elser & Marc Connelly; Max Gordon, producer). In 1825 cannons boomed from Albany to Buffalo as Governor De Witt Clinton, on a red and yellow barge, opened the Erie Canal. For 50 years it was the main commercial artery between East and West, the marvel of its time until the railroads came. With much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor...