Papers, 1900-1959.
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Columbia University
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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
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The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (ELAS) was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899). It became, by the year of Hyde’s death, the largest life insurance company in the world. Hyde sought to guarantee that his son, James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), would continue family control of the company after his death, but in 1905 the younger Hyde lost control in a struggle which resulted from an investigation of the insurance industry by New York State. From the g...
Parkinson, Thomas I. (Thomas Ignatius), 1881-1959
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Parkinson was with the Columbia University law school from 1910-1935, specializing in administrative law and legislative drafting. He was president (1927-1953) and chairman (1953-1954) of Equitable Life Assurance Society and served on the boards of several other corporations. From the description of Papers, 1900-1959. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 30564563 ...