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...institutions and its enthusiastic personal backers. Its preeminence as a research and teaching school, the high-grade of its staff and the prestige of its trustees makes this possible. Twenty years ago there was a Throop College of Technology, a secondary polytechnic school, at Pasadena. Arthur Henry Fleming, wealthy Canadian-born Los Angeles lumberman, was president of its trustees. He talked Throop up among his rich Los Angeles friends. Let us make a great institution out here in Southern California, he argued in effect. Let us get the best men in the world as teachers. Let us let them prosecute...
Elected. Medley G. B. Whelpley, 37, Canadian-born onetime vice president of Chase National Bank; to be president of American Express Bank and Trust Co.; at Manhattan...
Coach Stubbs' charges, presenting practically the same starting lineup as before the examination period, are slightly favored over their mid-western rivals but they will hardly win without a struggle. Coach Iverson's five Canadian-born players, headed by the MacFayden brothers and Clarence MacKenzie have led their team to an unbroken chain of victories in Western Conference collegiate play...
Ralph D. Blumenfeld is 64 years old. He was born in the U.S., worked on Chicago and New York newspapers. Then he went to England and became editor of the London Daily Express-owned by the most potent of Canadian-born peers, Lord Beaverbrook. Editor Blumenfeld toured the U.S., this autumn, as guest of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Last week, back in London, he told of the one ineffaceable memory of his tour-Prohibition, "the greatest, most tragic joke any nation played upon itself in the history of civilization...
...Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...