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When Yaleman Colgate kicked himself upstairs to the chairmanship two years ago, he turned the presidency over to big, hard-working Edward Herman Little. A North Carolina farmer boy, Soapman Little was doing fine as Colgate's Memphis district manager when tuberculosis sent him to Denver in 1911. Three years later he came back, cured, went to work for Caleb Johnson, rode out the mergers, took over Palmolive-Peet's foreign division and boomed it. In his two years as president he has stepped up his firm's gross profit from .3% to 10% of sales. What...
From the 120 interested listeners an executive board has been appointed by the Freshman Union Committee. Under the chairmanship of organizer Lauriat are Robert F. Kelkecheck '43, David T. Mintz '43, George W. Taylor '43, and Adam Yarmolinsky...
When genial, canny Edward Phillip Farley stepped out of the chairmanship of the U. S. Shipping Board in 1924, he took with him a lesson World War I had taught him. In that war Norway sold ships to belligerents willing to pay fantastic prices for bottoms to carry their precious foodstuffs and implements of war, collected insurance from Great Britain on chartered ships sunk by submarines and mines. In the lull that peace brought to world shipyards the canny Norwegians rebuilt their merchant marine at rock-bottom prices. Even today 45% of Norway's vessels are less than...
...Harry Hershfield, Manhattan cartoonist (Abie the Agent), went Charter No. 1 and chairmanship of the New York City chapter of the Grouch Club of America. Grouch Hershfield obligingly posed for news photographers, put his worst face forward...
...Managing Editor will be Alfred J. Gilbert '41 of Adams House and New York City. He succeeds Sheffield West '40. Assuming the Editorial Chairmanship, previously held by Garfield Horn '40, is Richard D. Edwards '40 of Leverett House and Pittsburgh...