Word: rileys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Probably four boards will remain: Education, Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Christian Work for Women. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will have to join with one of the last two. Last fortnight its president of the past 17 years, soft-spoken Mrs. Evelyn Riley Nicholson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, voiced a plea not only for the members of her society but for Methodist women in general : "We implore that you not relegate our activities to a subsidiary position to men's work in such a way as to limit us." While Methodist committees last week explored ways & means...
...There are now several cunning sculptors who make manikins their business: Cora Scovil, Lester Gaba, Jean Spadea (who gives her Bonwit Teller manikins such names as Zombie, Emmie and Eve). Manikins sculptured in wire mesh and covered with sheet music were introduced at Bergdorf Goodman last spring by Buckley & Riley, considered the maddest independents in the business...
Harry H. Weiss, Jr., South Bend, Indiana--James Whitcomb Riley High School...
...Manhattan, a two year stint in Bulgaria buying Turkish leaf tobacco. Thence he returned to Manhattan to work again for American Tobacco, later for Tobacco Products Corp., one of whose possessions was Melachrino. There he met Rube and Mac. In 1920 with his bride, a Boston girl named Rachel Riley, lanky Mr. Chalkley shipped for China to be second in command of a Tobacco Products Export Corp. factory in Shanghai. Twice during that period Rube Ellis journeyed to Shanghai and the two men became firm friends. In 1924 Rube took Chalkley back to Manhattan to be treasurer of Philip Morris...
Other members of the dance committee are: Ashley F. Campbell '40, John E. Crane '40, J. Riley Crump '50, Alan S. Evans '39. Alfred D. Chandler '40, David J. Conroy '39, Robin Scully '40, and John C. Taliaferro...