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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to an American Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem for Kansas City. He weighed...
...group of citizens whose background includes the state universities. Indeed the University of Michigan, where "Jim" Good studied law after being graduated from little Coe College ('92), was quick and glad to claim him, in a sort of for-God-for-country-and-for-Michigan alumni article last spring, along with Secretaries Lamont and Hyde (full-fledged Michiganders). as part of the new Michigan delegation in the Cabinet? a delegation far more satisfying to Michigan than its last one, which consisted of the Messrs. Harry Micajah Daugherty '81, Edwin Denby '96, and Hubert Work...
When a careful man builds his house, he itemizes his actual expenditures-so much for land, so much for lumber, for brick, for cement, for hardware & plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water...
Last week scores of costly marine playthings sported along the Atlantic seaboard. In the final, climactic race of the New York Yacht Club cruise, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, persistent vacationist, piloted Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie to beat George M. Pynchon's Istalena for the King of England...
...Edward R. Squibb, U. S. Navy surgeon, left the service and set up in a small way as a manufacturing chemist. It was just the right time. The Civil War, a big boom for medicaments, was only two years ahead. So the business went along prosperously, and at the age of 47 (in 1905) was incorporated as E. R. Squibb & Sons. Since then there has been another big boom for medicaments, the World War, which won the company not only profit but an award from the U. S. for distinguished service. That things have not been going backward since...