Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smaller towns the scheme of life is not complete without the local unit banker?men like Gallic Harris of Franklin, Ky. Benign-faced, with a smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When...
...furtive, unmentionable but widespread practice appeared again last week when the American Birth Control League held, in Manhattan, its first general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena...
Married. William W. Willock Jr., 21, heir to $120,000,000, grandson of Pittsburgh's late Steelman Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr. (Jones & Laughlin Co.); and one Adelaide Ingebretsen, 20, Willock household chambermaid, lately of Norway; at Oyster Bay, L. I. They met while he was tinkering in his machine shop on his father's East Norwich, L. I., estate. Said he: "My father had a good time getting where he is, and I can have a good time with Adelaide, too." Said she: "I liked him because he was so democratic with all the servants." Willock Sr. declared...
...Gilligan, Boston Latin School; E. A. Golde, Franklin School; Joseph Goldring, Boston Latin School; Hamilton Gray, Milton Academy; Herman Gross, Boston Latin School; N. Z. Grover, Boston Latin School; A. M. Halpern, Boston Latin School; A. C. Harrison, Jr., Saint Paul's School; S. M. Hart, Hempstead High School; A. M. Hatch, Brookline High School; R. M. C. Hatch, Saint Mark's School; H. C. Hatfield, Evanston High School; C. E. Herlihy, Boston Latin School; B. A. Herman, Boston Latin School; J. D. Hersey, Warren Harding High School; C. H. Hollis, Chauncy Hall School; H. D. Horblit, Boston Latin School...
...Writings of Benjamin Franklin", Professor Murdock, Harvard...