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...well for Robert Clarkson that his able efforts in the Chase Bank came to the notice of a discerning eye. In almost every efficient organization, however chaotic its workings may seem, there is one man, who may be the assistant cashier but who is more likely to be the president, whose function is to handle the controls. Albert Henry Wiggin occupied this position at the Chase National Bank, from 1911 to 1918, and again from 1921 to 1926* under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young President | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against the "newspaper mind [which] knows all about the day's happenings in a jumbled, chaotic sort of way" and does not think. Nor should ministers permit themselves, Editor Leach admonished, to organize their sermons, as so many do, "in about the same way that newspapers are organized [with] a bit of politics, a bit of scandal, a bit of love, a bit of hate and a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Management | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...story of Baron Melchoir Von Dronte's experience in the see-thing and chaotic countries of France and Germany in the late Eighteenth Century, the admirable blending of the supernatural and picturesque, the touch of fantasy, and the vigor of its action, place this book well above Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a tale of a life hereafter. With the well-told description of Von Dronte's early life the author skillfully disarms the reader of his will to disbelieve, and, having gained his confidence and credulity, he adroitly weaves his weird spell...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: New Translations | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...aims "to tell the story, so far as I have charted its course, of two of the most remarkable poems in English, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan.'" His chief guide in this hazardous and admirable journey is a notebook of 90 chaotic pages in which Coleridge was accustomed to scrawl the names of books which he had read or intended to read, ideas which he considered shaping into verse, recipes for ginger-wine and other paraphernalia of a profound and poetic intellect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caverns Charted | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...history with undergraduate notations, push a bit of Chaucer and a rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again, and probably has, at the incoherent paragraph written in his honor. Shades of his Mathematical System...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESTER'S BELLS FAIL TO TINKLE AS LAMPY NAPS | 2/3/1927 | See Source »

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