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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born in Woodstock, Ill., stocky, dynamic Farmer Boy Reynolds worked his way west, was known as a mighty Leland Stanford footballer to undergraduate Herbert Hoover. Striking out for the East he took his law degree at Columbia, taught in the Columbia Law School from 1903-06 and 1913-17, and on the side did such brilliant legal work for the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey that he was snapped up by George F. Baker, then director of First National Bank of New York. After nine years (in 1922) Mr. Reynolds was made president...
...Born of mountaineer stock at Breeding, Ky., lanky, humorous "Mel" Traylor also went west, to a two-fisted section of Texas, where he clerked by day, studied law at night and in 1909 became president of the First National Bank of Ballinger...
...Born. To Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, English socialite, the Nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle; a son; in London. Said the London Daily News: "She has caught the popular imagination by ranking first a happy marriage with its normal completion in the cradle...
...exposition on special furnaces in which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with heat. Mr. Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength...
...There were some others who liked to employ college men but only after someone else had "broken them in." A number conceded that a collegiate business school might impart some useful knowledge but it could not train executives. Business executives we were told, like Michel Angelos and Shakespeares, are born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first year of the school, by one of these skeptical visitors. He was as it happened, a firm believer in West Point methods. "What, apart from mere technical knowledge, readily acquired and honesty, much more common than...