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John B. Bowditch, Head Usher; Samuel Adams, John P. Ayer, Donald W. Baker, Frederick P. Barrett, Charles S. Bellows, William Bentinck-Smith, William B. Berssenbrugge, Thomas H. Bilodeau, George W. Blackwood, Beverley A. Bogert, Nathaniel Bowditch, Cameron Bradley, Richard A. Brayton, Francis H. Brooks, Thomas W. Bullitt, Alfred C. Butterfield...
Frederick P. Barrett, CRIMSON, Alfred C. Butterfield, CRIMSON, John M. Callaway, Dunbar Carpenter, James A. Field, CRIMSON, 1937 Red Book, C. Colmery Gibson, CRIMSON, 1937 Red Book, and Charles W. Hubbard, 3rd, 1937 Red Book...
Wells Fargo had found little trouble in getting its hands on Butterfield's Overland Mail line in 1861 or on its successor, the Pony Express. But in 1869 it was caught napping while the first transcontinental railroad pushed through. When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president...
...MARIETTA-Johan Fabricius-Little, Brown ($3). Looking back on the earlier 1930's, what would some Mark Sullivan of the future pick as typical novels of that bygone day? He might well choose such a lean and lustful tale as John O'Hara's Butterfield 8. He might mention in passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply...
...BUTTERFIELD 8-John O'Hara-Harcourt, Brace...