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...practice the Navy therefore gave a slight edge to Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews' defending "Blacks" as they steamed to sea in cruise formation (standard with all navies) to protect the vital Panama Canal from salty Vice Admiral E. C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus' attacking "Whites...
...hatters, who consider twelve hats exactly the right number for the well-dressed man, picked the U. S.'s twelve best-hatted* men: Marshall Field III, Jack Dempsey, Herbert Bayard Swope, Adolphus Busch III, Grover Aloysius Whalen, Robert Cobb, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., William Gaxton, Bing Crosby, Tyrone Power Jr., Fred Astaire, James Melton...
...bank "to obtain an accounting and recover secret profits on behalf of said bank." When his case went to trial in San Francisco's post-office building last summer (TIME, Sept. 6), no San Francisco newspaper cared to mention the fact. Last week, however, when Federal Judge Adolphus Frederick St. Sure finally handed down his decision, local papers could no longer ignore the matter. For mild Judge St. Sure found "that Herbert Fleishhacker violated his trust to the Anglo Bank and its stockholders...
...line to follow President Adams is 55-year-old Philip Adolphus Benson, president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank and therefore on the unit banker side. Elected second vice president last week was Robert March Hanes, president of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. A 47-year-old graduate of the University of North Carolina, he comes of a socially prominent family, is a Democrat and a Methodist, saw active service in the War. He was chosen for his important heirship-apparent largely because he is a fine example of the important, but independent, banker...
Last week Naval Cadet Pilot William R. Staggs, a black-browed, 25-year-old six footer attached to the aircraft carrier U. S. 5. Ranger off Coronado, Calif., exchanged telegrams thrice with Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, chief of the Bureau of Navigation in Washington. Their substance: Might he resign? No. Might he marry? No. Might he have 30 days leave...