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Some classmates gained importance when they were named to the student advisers committee, to aid and instruct first year men. T. H. Eliot was chairman of the committee, while W. N. Bump and Chandler Robbins were committee members...
Charles C. Abbott, Converse Professor of Banking and Finance at the Business School. Weston W. Adams, owner of the Boston Garden and the Boston Bruins. Bayley Aldrich, well-known Boston lawyer. William Nelson Bump, vice-President of American Airlines...
...swindler-take the visitors on. All three badmen have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands, sleepless brains; all three are passionate believers in the robinhood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a Gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than to convert...
Glum and pessimistic, United Fruit Co. officials in Boston and Guatemala City waited last week to see what Guatemala proposed to pay for 233,973 acres of company land at Tiquisate, expropriated by the land-reforming government. A curt official telegram to Almyr Lake Bump, the U.S.-owned firm's Guatemala manager, finally brought the answer: $594,572, or $2.54 an acre-and that in 25-year, 3% government bonds. The company's unofficial valuation: $11.5 million. "The measure constitutes a heavy blow to the voracious imperialist company," gloated the Communist weekly Octubre. "Practically confiscation," snorted United Fruit...
Headstrong. In Painesville, Ohio, William Marut, after wondering for weeks what had hit his head New Year's Eve, finally got around to showing the bump to a doctor, who found a .22 slug embedded in his scalp...