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After a seven-week convention at Cleveland, which cost more than $1,000,000 in expenses, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers last week voted to eliminate the office of "president" in their organization. Thereby they graciously threw President William B. Prenter out of the office he had held since Warren Sanford Stone's death on June 12, 1925. The Brotherhood was displeased with Mr. Prenter because during his incumbency the investments made by their banks and other financial agencies had depreciated in value by several millions of dollars. Their Florida boom town, Venice, had cost them too dearly...
...work-with a minimum of talk and a maximum of thought." A less exciting impression of what civil engineers do at a convention was given by John F. Stevens, the Society's stern-faced president: "The principal reason for the convention is to establish a bond of brotherhood. . . . We will consider routine business-aside from that nothing remains." But what John F. Stevens would call
While even great and good men have occasionally made sport of Virtue, in every age, it is still venerated with the utmost pomp by a Germanic branch of that famed brotherhood of nobles, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem...
Their offer to the B. of L. E. was to take over the management of eleven banks and seven investment companies which the Brotherhood owns. The value of these institutions totals $89,000,000. To this the Mittens proposed to add a "substantial amount of new capital" when they assumed management...
Within the Brotherhood conferences in Cleveland last week criticism developed against the Mittens' proposal. Learning this Dr. A. A. Mitten telegraphed: "The apparent impossibility of there being a sufficiently unanimous accord of the convention in approval, prompts us now to request that the proposition ... be now withdrawn." Said B. of L. E. President Prenter: "Other plans preferable to the Mitten project will be brought before the convention...