Word: leland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Superintendent John C. Plumb of Woodlawn (N. Y.) Cemetery was delighted. With a professional eye he inspected the plot of real grass, the border of daffodils, the flowering dogwood blossoms, the background of evergreens and the three tombstones that they set off. To Ernest Leland, No. I tombstone designer in the U. S., he cried...
...Southern Pacific's "Big Four" were Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington...
Four noted judges will read all letters received and pick the winner. They are Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago; Frederick B. Robinson, President of the City of New York College; Ray L. Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford University; and Henry N. MacCracken, President of Vassar College. Their decision is final...
...reading for him while he was studying at Ohio State. After working at National Cash Register, Mr. Kettering and Edward Andrew Deeds started Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co., sold Delco lighting plants to U. S. farmers. His best known invention-the self-starter for motorcars -was developed for Henry M. Leland, onetime head of Cadillac. General Motors got Mr. Kettering when they got Delco and Mr. Kettering is now head of General Motors Research Division. One of his inventions is a gadget for opening bedroom windows without getting...
...being the First Citizen of Muncie. Ind. with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie, summering in Leland, Mich. Brother Frank, 77, commutes by plane from Leland but his younger brother, who is 72, refuses to fly. The extensive Ball philanthropies include a $1,000,000 hospital, a $1,000,000 Masonic Temple and the Ball State Teachers College. Besides the lucrative fruit-jar business, world...