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...Burlington, Vt. Wintering at Phoenix, Ariz. Vermonter Lane's query about the "meaningless fragments" can never be answered. Now that the "mystery" is dispelled, not even the Cuneo Press typesetters could honestly say how little or much sense or sensation they derived from setting the disjointed Coolidge paragraphs. Editor Long exaggerated, perhaps, when he suggested that the typesetters were entirely ignorant of what the fragments were all about. Vermonter Lane's questioning of Editor Long's editorial integrity is more grave. In the interests of accuracy, definiteness and fairplay, TIME has showed Vermonter Lane's letter...
...railroads last week came another important 1929 shift of executives. Previous noteworthy changes involved the Southern Pacific. They were the retirement of William Sproale as president, succession of Paul Shoup to the presidency, and the resignation of Hale Holden from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy to become chairman of Southern Pacific's (New York) executive committee...
...vice presidents was swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, Massachusetts farmer's son who in youth had been a flour dealer's clerk, and blond William Chapman Potter, Chicago-born mining engineer. The two were brothers-in-law, their wives the daughters of the late Paul Morton, variously President of the Burlington Railroad, Secretary of the Navy under Roosevelt. President of the Equitable. Mr. Potter still fondly calls himself a mining engineer, rather than a banker. He was long associated with the Guggenheims. For a period he even gave up his office with the rich bank to become a member...
Elected. Frederic Ely Williamson, executive vice president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R., of St. Paul, Minn.; to be president, succeeding Hale Holden of Chicago, Ill., newly-appointed executive chairman of the Southern Pacific...