Word: aaron
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...born 56 years ago on a back-country farm in south Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...
...John Stewart Baker, 40, chairman of the second oldest private bank in New-York, $502,000,000 Bank of the Manhattan Co. Like his father Stephen before him he was president of the bank at 34, and his great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...
...after six years in the business, Albert Richard Johnson has been called "the father of musical comedy design." Son of an agricultural expert and professional Russian observer named Albert Aaron Johnson (Russia at Work, The Soviet Union at Work, Progress in the Soviet Union), he knew a little about drafting when he came to Manhattan from Florida to study with Norman Bel Geddes. He learned all Geddes could teach him in eight months, appeared on Broadway at 18 announcing that he was "God's gift to the Theatre." Twice thrown out of Producer William Harris Jr.'s office...
...William Aaron Selz, aged 17, of Dayton, O., graduate of Steele High School. He is the son of William A. Selz, printer. Selz was first among all high school seniors in Ohio this year in the annual scholarship tests given by the state department of education. He was captain of the school debating team, editor of a school publication, and president of the literary society. His major interests are English and philosophy, and his desire is to enter literary work...
...public service goes back to Alumnus-Professor-President Woodrow Wilson, to Grover Cleveland, longtime trustee and lecturer, and finally to the great years between 1769 and 1812. From exactly 1,000 men whom Princeton graduated in those years the U. S. chose one President (James Madison), two Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr and George Mifflin Dallas), six Continental Congressmen, 31 U. S. Senators, 48 U. S. Representatives, 21 State Governors, four U. S. Cabinet members, seven U. S. and State Supreme Court Justices. That took 43 years. But by 1944 President Dodds and the rest of the country should know whether...