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...Richmond, Va. banker who helped found Freeport in 1913. Working control of Freeport had passed to Eric P. Swenson, onetime chairman of National City Bank, by the time young, energetic Langbourne Williams graduated from the Harvard Business School. But by 1930, after his Lee, Higginson apprenticeship, Mr. Williams was ready to oust the old management which had, among other things, let Freeport's reserves approach the point of exhaustion. He became vice president and a Baltimore banker named Eugene Norton took the presidency "in trust." Last year Langbourne Williams felt he was old enough to assume official control...
...with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship with the Choctaw Club (New Orleans' Tammany), was conceded a second term as Mayor of the Crescent City...
...believe in an apprenticeship education in economics, as well as in other subjects," said Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and present leader of the "brain trust," in an interview with the CRIMSON recently. Among several Harvard economic instructors, it is openly rumored that efforts are being made to induce Tugwell to accept a position on the Harvard faculty in the near future. Similar rumors exist at Washington...
...lusty young automobile industry, of money still too young to beget staid offspring, but not too young to sow a few wild oats. He himself, now three years short of 50, was 27 years ago a boy from Chicago's outskirt, Evanston, just beginning his financial apprenticeship with N. W. Harris & Co. Six years ago he stepped out of Harris Trust & Savings Bank to carry the banner of finance to the City of Automobiles, to the Land-Where-Things-Were-Done-in-a-Big Way. Help, On the first day of his session in the witness chair Mr. Lord...
Churchill served in the army under five reigns (Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III, Anne). He was a colonel at 24. but 52 before he commanded a large army. After a brief apprenticeship under the French Marshal Turenne, he made a reputation as a putter-clown of rebellions-Monmouth's English yokels, the Irish kerns and galloglasses. When William III died, at 52. the stage was set for Marlborough's European campaigns, those "ten years of unbroken victory'' which Author Churchill will relate in further installments...