Word: streets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself has said, "only an investor." Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from McMasters University, Toronto, and, in 1906 arrived in Cleveland with the Baptist ministry as his chosen career. Before ordination, however, he became interested in public utilities, left the ministry in favor of Cleveland street railways. Next he went to Iowa, bought up options on public utilities. One of his Iowa deals was financed by Otis & Co., Cleveland bond house, marked the beginning of Mr. Eaton's connection with Otis & Co. of which he has been a partner since 1915. In 1912 he organized Continental...
...made many gifts (one of $250,000) to McMasters University, also to Denison University (Ohio), and is a University of Chicago trustee. On a visit to his home town of Pugwash he disliked the hotel accommodations, so undertook a campaign of municipal improvement which included the straightening of Main Street, a park, and a new hotel. Shortly after these improvements, the whole town was practically destroyed in a fire, and had to be largely rebuilt, again with Mr. Eaton's assistance. Mr. Eaton never drinks, seldom smokes, spends much time at home with his art-loving wife and seven...
...supposed to have arisen from heavy expenditures in distillation experiments and poor management. According to rumor several oil and utility companies, recognizing Combustion's strategic position, considered merging with it, then withdrew after viewing the involved finances and small amount of actually liquid assets. Significant to Wall Street was the fact that President George Edward Learnard, onetime Boston bookkeeper resigned Dec. 6, four days before the preferred dividend was passed...
...French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world. In 1918 he had enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery in his home on 21st Street, Washington. Since then the collection has grown so large that paintings are crowding the family out. Another house is now being built where the family will live, but when they move they will not strip the 21st Street house of its furnishings. It is one of Mr. Phillips' theories...
...SECRET OF 37 HARDY STREET-Robert J. Casey-Bobbs Merrill...