Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born. To Mr. & Mrs. John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams (she is the onetime Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great-granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant); twin girls; at London...
...changing its name was amended at the last session of the State Legislature. Fundamentalists who resented the use of the word "Baptist" in describing Preacher Fosdick's church, Modernists who felt the same way for different reasons, irreverents who have called the new church "Socony" in deference to Mr. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., all took notice...
...insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...
...great good fortune Mr. Shattuck ... is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal attorney for Hoover and all his family. I have persuaded him to undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...
Nowhere did the testimony show that Lobbyist Lakin had actually obtained anything from the White House by Mr. Shattuck's employment. The President had evidently remained strictly neutral. The Lakin lobby letters were simply a salesman's reports to his employers...