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Most notable personal milestone in the one-generation industry occurred when one of its pioneers chose to retire into the chairmanship of the company bearing his name. He was Charles Williams Nash, 68, who once owned 20 sheep and little else, whose fortune grew with the Industry until it was said to have made him 100 times a millionaire. Earl Hansen McCarty, 46, succeeded him as president. Mr. Nash began as a carriage-trimmer in the old Flint Road Cart Co. From 1912 through 1916 he presided over General Motors, having rehabilitated the old Buick Motor Car Co. He then...
Banker Hoyt is a director of more than 60 corporations. An office which he hugely enjoys is his chairmanship of Madison Square Garden Corp. He lives on swank Lloyd's Neck, L. I. with his second wife, the former Mrs. Nelson Doubleday. One of his ambitions is to fly better than his daughter Eleanor, 20, who last year married youthful Alexis du Pont Jr. Racing speedboats used to be his chief hobby. Since 1926 he has competed in the Gold Cup class with two white craft named Imp. In 1929 he won the Gold Challenge Cup; in 1930 made...
...Foreign Students Committee of Brooks House, under the chairmanship of M. S. Knowles '34, has expressed the hope that the debates will not be limited by the national policies of the various delegations, but that individual opinions will be expressed. All students are invited to attend but may not take part in the discussion...
...final and full report of the Commission on Medical Education, which has been at work since 1924 under the chairmanship of President Lowell of Harvard, follows immediately on the heels of the report of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur's Committee on the Costs of Medical Care; and if this is a coincidence it is a happy one. The two learned bodies explore overlapping fields and support each other in many of their independent findings, but when the Lowell Commission deals with the question of "medical mass production," which is the major recommendation of the Wilbur Committee, it reports against...
...Hubert Beal, 37, became president of Auburn Automobile Co, as busy Errett Lobban Cord, 38, retired to the chairmanship. Mr. Beal has worked for Auburn's unit, Lycoming Manufacturing Co., since 1919. In 1931 Mr. Cord withdrew into the chairmanship for ten months. Currently he needs freedom to attend to his interest in Aviation Corp...