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Nevertheless, in Haiti, a new Government development company, with a $3,000,000 Export-Import Bank Loan, is so fascinated with its $25,000-$50,000 perfume experiments that Nelson Rockefeller's tropical agriculture expert Atherton Lee says "they have to be reminded about the rubber program." Haiti's President, silver-haired Elie Lescot,† negotiated this loan himself last spring, when he was still Minister to the U.S. Longtime (1922-30) Minister of Education & Agriculture, he has for years taken a keen interest in developing new farm products and markets for his small, crowded, beautiful country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ylang-Ylang Tree | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Representing the CRIMSON at the informal debate yesterday evening was Alfred L. Atherton, Jr. '44, who emphasized that "little is to be gained by haphazard individual complaints," and revealed that the CRIMSON would conduct a poll next week to determine undergraduate views on this topic. "We should not consider the present setup as permanent," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD PROBLEM DEBATE HELD ON NETWORK | 2/13/1942 | See Source »

Theodore M. Adelson '44, Charles G. Alex '43, Gordon Allen '42, Joseph M. Ambrose '42, Adolbert Ames 3d. '43, John W. Armstrong Jr. '42, Fred G. Arragg '44, Alfred L. Atherton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 140 STUDENTS AWARDED SUM OF $31,335 BY CORPORATION | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

Birthday. Tireless Novelist Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 84 (Black Oxen, The Crystal Cup); in San Francisco. "Rejuvenated" by X-ray stimulation of her ovaries in 1922, she spent her birthday pounding out her daily stint of 1,000 words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 10, 1941 | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Atherton report produced only two concrete results: dismissal of 13 policemen who were embarrassingly rich and passage of a California law requiring bail-bond firms to be licensed by the State Insurance Department. Brassy Pete McDonough who well knew that the law was directed against him, tried three times to get a license. At the last hearing, in March, he produced as character witnesses Police Chief Charles Dullea, the State Highway Commission chairman, two police commissioners, three city supervisors-all of whom called him a gentleman and a scholar. Only effect of this testimony was to move Insurance Commissioner Anthony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CREDIT: The Old Lady Moves On | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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