Word: friendship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Cochran, Fleischmann President Joseph C. Wilshire, Board Chairman Max C. Fleischmann, Royal President William Ziegler Jr. Mr. Wilshire will be president of the new company. The directorate will include Morgan-Men William Ewing and Henry P. Davison. The Morgan interest in the merger was accented by the personal friendship long existing between Morgan-Partner Cochran and Major Fleischmann, and by the Morgan ownership of a considerable portion of Fleischmann stock (estimated at 400,000 shares) purchased...
Similar independent meetings were held about the same time elsewhere, notably at Friendship, N. Y., May 16, 1854. The first state convention of Republicans met at Jackson, Mich.,* July 6, 1854, the first national convention at Pittsburgh Feb. 22, 1856. Today New York, Ripon, Friendship, Jackson, Pittsburgh all claim to have "founded" the Republican party...
...august and dingy walls of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris guarded last week France's latest peace offering. In the Galerie Mazarine there hung 1,400 portraits of famed contemporary Frenchmen, ready for distribution among 14 leading U. S. universities "to strengthen the ties of friendship and understanding between France and the United States...
...Dean asked U. S. Negroes to send builders, educators. News came that all the other African Kings were gathered at Cape Town to do homage to the Prince of Wales, present King of England. Dean went there, organized a private reception for the Kings. He got them to swear friendship, fealty, each to each, in a dozen dialects. Not only, however, did no help come from the U. S., but one night, soon after the reception, the warehouse containing Dean's whole fortune in ostrich feathers mysteriously burnt down. The feathers had not been insured. Dean's life...
...history of these contests must be contrasted most pleasantly with the hectic rivalry of the Olympic Games. Friendship and the idea of a pleasant excursion have fortunately been the dominant themes which have characterized the matches in the past. At the same time the keen desire for victory has not been lost but merely sublimated to the more commendable attitude of fair play...