Word: one
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sixty-one indignant undergraduates published a signed manifesto in the Yale Daily News, crying: ''The withdrawal of Mr. French signifies, as well as an incalculable loss to the university, a demoralizing blow directed against those who stand out for the principles upon which he has based his work ... an irreparable injury to the principle of a 'finer, not a bigger Yale,' which we have been led to respect...
...since 1889) Trustee Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Herald Tribune, loved well these natural wonders. Said he: "Since my first knowledge of Cornell University, I have regarded the beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every one who matriculates . . . will carry through after days their memory and spiritual influence." During his lifetime he gave some $200,000 to develop Cornell's campus. This autumn, just before his death, the trustees renamed the waterfalls of Cascadilla Creek in his honor. Last week Trustee Sackett's will...
...One day in 1925 troubled directors of Trumbull Steel Co. sat around a table and wondered where they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a taL stranger walked into their sanctum, slapped down on the table a $20,000,000 check, said, "There is my letter of introduction...
Thus did Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, a stranger to steel men, enter a business which was no less strange to him. Once in, he stayed in; acquired a controlling interest in many another steel company; created one of those vague but formidable entities known as an interest. Steel men, surveying the various steel companies included in the Eaton steel interests, began to predict a merger that would leave United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel no longer so pre-eminently first and second largest steel companies that the position of third largest carried with it only a statistical distinction...
Central Alloy Steel Corp. is the leading producer of steel alloys and is one of the several U. S. steel companies 'licensed by Germany's Krupp Works to make the new nitralloy and nirosta (stainless) steels. The new Republic company is forming a subsidiary, Republic Research Co., which will specialize in the development of alloy steels and will be headed by Frederick J. Griffiths, Central Alloy's board chairman...