Word: frelinghuysen
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...after U. S. Gypsum's showing in its struggle with Certain-Teed was doubtless due to the fact that another potent competitor in the difficult building trade is Morganized Johns-Manville Co. When in 1921 Montgomery Ward faced grave difficulties because of inventory value shrinkage, the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles was made president. Expansion followed and in 1927 President Merseles left to head Johns-Manville. He was in this position when he died in 1929. Succeeding him in Montgomery Ward was George Bain Everitt who had had 15 years of mail order experience. The company then began opening...
...Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, onetime Republican Senator from New Jersey, sent Bishop Cannon a $10,000 contribution, in cashier's checks bought for cash. No record could be found of a report to Congress of this campaign expenditure by Bishop Cannon or Mr. Frelinghuysen. The latter is a director of "Fat Cat" Jameson's insurance company. ¶ Claudius Hart Huston, Tennessee Hooverite who later became Republican National Committee Chairman, donated $5,000 to Bishop Cannon's Anti-Smith fund which also was not reported...
...slander. . . . The foam of falsehood will soon cease to scare the timid or ambitious. . . . It would cheapen the memory of a man, most deserving, to importune anybody to do his memory a simple justice."* The association re-elected its officers: Calvin Coolidge, honorary president; one-time Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, president; Secretary of Treasury Andrew William Mellon, treasurer...
...Jersey's race for the Republican Senatorial nomination was by far the most colorful and significant. In it four women ?the wife of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow, the daughter and the wife of onetime Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, the sister of Representative Franklin William Fort? stumpspoke in the interests of their men. Candidate Frelinghuysen soon lost public interest, but the contest?gentlemanly and distinguished?between Dry Mr. Fort and Wet Mr. Morrow drew national attention. Yale's Professor Irving Fisher campaigned for Mr. Fort, Princeton's President John Grier Hibben spoke for Mr. Morrow. Beneath...
...First Dry to the witness stand was Edwin Cornell Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co., director of many another potent company, business partner of New Jersey's Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said...