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Title
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Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Louis Samuel Rothschild, or Louis Rothschild, a business executive and government official of Kansas City with offices at 1000 Main Street and residence at 610 West Meyer Boulevard. Born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1900 and joining his father's business, Rothschild & Sons, in 1920 before becoming a member of the City Planning Commission of Kansas City in 1937, chairman of the board of the Inland Waterways Corporation in 1953, charirman of the Federal Maritime Board in 1953, and under secretary of commerce for transportation in 1955.
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of the United States
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Description
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Biographical sketch of William Torrey Harris, or William Harris (1835-1909), the United States Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906 and native of Connecticut, moving to Saint Louis as a teacher and becoming superintendent of public schools there, establishing one of the first American journals of philosophy there in 1867 and then founding the Concord School of Philosophy in Massachusetts.
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Date
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1909
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Lawson Lowrey
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Lawson Gentry Lowrey, or Lawson Lowrey, a nationally prominent psychiatrist and physician born in Centralia, Missouri, in 1890 and operating around the nation, including teaching tenures at the University of Missouri and Harvard in the 1901s-1910s, etc. Also a leader in the specialization of orthopsychiatry in the 1930s, editing the Journal of American Orthopsychiatry starting in 1930.
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Date
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1905-04-25
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Object Type
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Book