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(fr ´dr kh ä´dôlf pä´n t) (KEY) , 1887–1958, Austrian chemist. He was educated at Vienna, Munich, and Glasgow. He held a number of teaching po...
1821–1905, American financier, b. Sandusky, Ohio. He founded Jay Cooke & Company, which marketed the huge Civil War loans of the federal governm...
(shwäb) (KEY) , 1862–1939, American steel magnate, b. Williamsburg, Pa. He started as a stake driver in Andrew Carnegie’s steelworks and rose to ...
1898–1990, American business executive, b. New York City. He began in his father’s pharmaceutical business and then expanded it into the Soviet Un...
(l m nt´) (KEY) , 1870–1948, American banker, b. Claverack, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1892. Lamont entered (1903) the banking business in New York City ...
in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother...