Word: addison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a man is made by catastrophe. Ulysses Simpson Grant was made by the Civil War. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini was made by the San Francisco Fire. Noah and Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence Addison Dykstra were alike floated up to eminence by a flood. Last week City Manager Dykstra, the most prominently mentioned candidate to succeed ousted Glenn Frank as President of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Dec. 28; Jan. 18), met three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati...
...acquired twp big generating stations, 7,600 mi. of line, 185,000 new customers and 800 new city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt. Los Angeles now had the largest municipally-owned power system in the world...
...Crimson's chances of victory may depend upon the success of its entries in the 118 and 126-pound classes. Pat Johnson, Varsity coach, will start Harvey Ross who was unbeaten as a Freshman and is unbeaten this year against Addison Y. Foshay of the Tigers in the 118-pound class and Louis Ach against Richard B. Harding in the 126-pound class...
...study begins at the turn of the century, surveys the political scene in which Defoe, Swift, Addison, and Steele made their contributions to what Defoe called the "Heats, Feuds, and Animosities" of their day, but becomes most absorbing in its account of the activities of the journalists who fought back and forth during Walpole's last fifteen years in office. No period can rival that one for the violence of its satire, defamation, and downright libel. There were statutes forbidding the publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective...
...partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of heart disease; in Bedford, N. Y. On his statement that General Motors stock was selling cheap in 1926, it rocketed from 189 to 214½. To Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he gave $10,000,000, including a bird sanctuary, the Addison Art Gallery...