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...swords sharpened by the nation to avenge the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. last March, was last week raised menacingly over the heads of two young morons of Roanoke, Va. Banker John P. Morgan, passing through the city on a quiet motor-trip vacation (see p. 20), was shocked to read in the newspapers, not that the original murderers had been caught but that two youths, Norman Harvey, 26, farmer's son, and Joe Bryant, 19, city employe's son, had been apprehended near a Roanoke bank after Bryant had cashed-or thought he had cashed...
...Mining Co.; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Because his father was an able copper man, he shied away from copper, bought into a chain of Montana banks at 37, lined up with Amalgamated Copper Co.'s famed Henry H. Rogers in a copper war with Fritz Augustus Heinze. His spoils included Amalgamated's presidency in 1908. In 1910 he merged it into Anaconda, was set for the Wartime copper boom, built Anaconda by cheerful pugnacity and serious business into a $700,000,000 company. Of his Montana Power Co. he admitted: "It is a monopoly because...
Turning back to his own country, the discerning citizen of the U. S. would find more promising material. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 1927 Man of the Year, had become the Victim of the Year in 1932. For the loss of his son & namesake the nation had given him all its sympathy but to him went no plaudits for any new achievement. When in 1928 Walter P. Chrysler became Man of the Year his Manhattan office building was starting to rise as the world's tallest, his Chrysler Motors organized to vie with General Motors. Now the Chrysler Building is overtopped...
...Harvard family; Missouri-born Professor George Harold Edgell of the Fine Arts Department; Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 37, a distinguished clubman but a stutterer; Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams; Law Professor Francis Bowes Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Harvard Consultant-on-Careers Augustus Lowell Putnam (nephew); Biologist Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted ex-president of the University of Michigan; Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian who, like Dr. Little, might be considered too liberal. A generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired...
Class of 1934: Meyer Howard Abrams, of Long Branch, New Jersey; Edward Augustus Ackerman, of Spokane, Washington; Daniel Joseph Boorstin, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Donald David Cody, of Hartford, Connecticut; Anderson Chenault Dearing, Jr., of Washington, D.C.; Barney Feldman, of Lynn, Massachusetts; Edward Settle Godfrey, of Albany New York; Herbert Maurice Katzin, of Newark, New Jersey...