Word: movers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time last week to the general U. S. public was the fact that Russian experimenters have successfully inoculated women against pregnancy. Four or five doses of serum made from spermatazoa has made women infertile for from five to six months, when further injections continued the temporary sterility. Chief mover of last week's conference was Mrs. Frederick Robertson Jones, wife of a famed Manhattan insurance economist. She has been president of the Ameri- can Birth Control League since Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger resigned in 1928. Brown-haired, slim, energetic, mother of two college daughters (Bryn Mawr, Yassar) herself...
...have thus far failed to note the recent merger of a number of North Carolina banks, a dozen or more, into the North Carolina Bank & Trust Co. with headquarters in Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, High Point, Salisbury, Rocky Mount, Burlington. Former Governor Angus MacLean of North Carolina, a prime mover in the merger, is chairman of the board...
Officers were announced as Mr. Rand, president, Ernest Stauffen Jr., chairman of the board of directors, Harral S. Tenney, vice president. Banker Stauffen, enthusiastic, has been a prime mover in group banking, was perhaps principal factor in formation of Marine Midland Corp. But unlike Banker Rand, Mr. Stauffen did not learn his banking behind cages and over ledgers. Graduated from Columbia in 1904, he practiced law, then became vice president in charge of finance of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan merchants. In 1915 he was made a vice president of the Liberty National Bank, kept the position when this institution was merged...
Last week's N. C. E. meeting was broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole of Canada. .... A more special purpose is to draw the widest possible attention to certain aspects of our western civilization which are crying out for consideration. . . . The older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were...
...stereotyped doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs. In Georgia, last week, death came to a terrapin-hatcher (see p. 63). And in Georgia, 55 years ago, was born a man destined to be an expert marble-mover. This man, too, died, last week...