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...young Milwaukeean, just graduated from Yale this year, has gone to work for a local public utility. Like all good Horatio Alger heroes, he was ready to start at the bottom and work up. So his employer sent him out on the read to learn some of the fundamentals of the business...

Author: By Milwaukee Journal., | Title: "Where Yuh Been?" | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

Married. Mrs Josephine Alger Cheney, granddaughter of the late General Russell Alexander Alger, McKinley secretary of war (1897-99); and D. Dwight Douglas, president of First National Bank of Detroit; at York Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Four Harvard alumni have been appointed to fill vacancies on the Harvard Fund Council, governing board of the Fund. They are F. M. Alger '99 of Detroit, Michigan; Dr. E. G. Stillman '08 of New York City; P. C. Cabot '21 of Boston; and Lawrence Coolidge '27 of Boston. Thus far in 1929 the Fund has received contributions from 5,698 alumni; it is closing its fourth year of operation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund Council Vacancies Filled | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

...American, once noted as a pedestrian, commercially-minded "success-story" magazine, under Editor Crowell had been growing somewhat more sprightly, less reflective of the Alger-like business careers of button kings. Prominent among contributors in the American's November issue are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Biographer Emil Ludwig, Funnyman George McManus, Authors Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Duer Miller, Will Irwin. In circulation, too, has the American grown. When Editor Crowell first grasped the pencil-scepter, the American claimed a paltry 1,900,000 readers. When his weary fingers relinquished their grip, 350,000 had been added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: CrowelPs Crowell | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Rhode Island flags, further back in the line, strode Governor Norman Stanley Case (Brown 1908) surrounded by his staff. Followed many a statesman, jurist and nearly three-score college presidents. There were Cornell's Farrand, Yale's Angell, Union's Day, Rhode Island's Alger ; also Charles Evans Hughes (Brown 1881), Mr. Rockefeller Jr. and President Emeritus William Herbert Perry Faunce, about whom a similar to-do was made 30 years ago when he entered an administration which outlasted all others begun at the turn of the century. At the Meeting House, Brown under graduates heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brown Men | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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