Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department nowadays and Yale blue are the Mexicans' jerseys. Their coach is Reginald Root, burly Yale tackle of 1924-25. He was sponsored by Arthur Bliss Lane, Yale '16. chief of the State Department's Mexican section, and by James Rockwell Sheffield. Yale '87, one-time (1924-27) U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. His presence in Mexico was described as '"'a gesture of good-will." Ambassador Morrow contributed to the necessary fund...
...possible that Senator Smoot doesn't know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the administrative divisions of the largest county in England, and contains large manufacturing cities like Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Halifax, or is he joking, or trying to make Senator Harrison believe it is a protest from a riding club...
Last June there was graduated from the East Orange, N. J., High School one John Osborn Reid, 19, interested in science and planning to go to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. Often he had driven by the Edison Laboratories, only three miles from his home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what...
...Corp., is widely recognized as a Coming Man of Wall Street. He graduated from Harvard (1901), took a law degree (1904), entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares...
...long series of previous British submarine disasters, Lt. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, Laborite, M. P., a retired naval officer, urged complete abolition of the submarine as an instrument of war, urged stopping construction on the six British submarines now under construction. Speaking next day in sooty, steel-manufacturing Sheffield, First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander seemed to agree with him. Said...