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John C. Traphagen, senior vice president of Chase National Bank, was made a trustee of Bank of New York 6 Trust Co, Under the Bank of New York & Trust Co.'s 147-year-old charter, Mr. Traphagen remains a trustee "for life or good behaviour...
...husband, the late Kingsley Ryan, patented four mechanical self-locking nut & bolt devices. In 1913 she renewed the patents, began to file suits and threaten suits against steel companies. She obtained an $18,000 settlement out of court from U. S. Steel. Although the settlement included her promised "good behaviour" in the future, she now claims the old suit had nothing to do with the patents on which her present suit is based...
...calling to mind the deceptive behaviour of parents in similar circumstances, the Vagabond concluded that Mr. McKee undoubtedly has a model family -more's the pity! Obviously the origin of the trouble lies deeply buried in the victim's past. Perhaps this extreme distaste for the college student barks back to a very personal interview, a long, long time ago, between a certain dean and a certain young Don McKee. Perhaps at the conclusion of this interview, the budding cartoonist went out into the wide world, feeling rather keenly the absence of the usual benediction. Perhaps he feels that...
...which the tender hearted heroine undertakes to shelter in the absence of their owner, with no better facilities for housing them than a hall bedroom. Eight dogs and a girl in a small bedroom provides an amusing scene, the dogs adding to the entertainment by their somewhat too casual behaviour...
Behaviorism believes that "behaviour of man from infancy to death is the subject-matter of [human] psychology." Behaviorism's chief exponent, John Broadus Watson, says: "Thinking is merely talking . . . with concealed musculature...