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Easily distinguished from Charles E. Mitchell, iron-haired president of New York's National City Bank is Charles E. Mitchell, U. S. Minister to Liberia. Minister Mitchell is black. For many years he was a Republican National Committeeman from West Virginia and business manager of West Virginia State College for Negroes. In Liberia Charles E. Mitchell is a most important...
...Harvard Law School in 1911, and entered the firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins, later becoming a partner. During the war, he served in the infantry, and was discharged with the rank of captain. Mr. Richardson has been active in Massachusetts politics, and is now Republican national committeeman for Massachusetts...
Died. Norman Edward Mack (McEachran), 74, potent Buffalo Democrat, longtime (1900-32) New York Democratic National Committeeman, publisher of Buffalo's Sunday & Daily Times (sold to Scripps-Howard in 1929 at an estimated price of $5,000,000); of asthma & heart trouble; in Buffalo. Famed as New York's "original Bryan man," he fought for three Bryan nominations (1896, 1900. 1908), stayed regular-party in 1904 when Bryan split. Long a fighter for Prohibition modification, he lined up last February for Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President, resigned his National Committeemanship after the convention...
...sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan's Empire State Building, members of the National Transportation Committee were annoyed by a sound of hammering outside their room. Chairman Calvin Coolidge excused himself, went out, returned. The noise continued. Growled Committeeman Alfred Emanuel Smith, Empire State Co. president: "I'll find out how long this fellow will be rebuilding this structure." Soon the hammering ceased. Said James John ("Jimmy") Walker
Next day Cord's most potent proxy-committeeman, white-haired Speculator Frank Arthur Vanderlip ("The Grey Ghost of Wall Street"), called at the office of young Banker William Averell Harriman, who lately left Avco's chair (TIME, Oct. 31). Presently they summoned Avco's new Chairman Robert Lehman, President Cohu, and Cord's hard-bitten Vice President Lucius Manning. From noon until nearly midnight they argued, bartered. Then, on terms which will doubtless remain secret, they emerged with a truce: the Avco board shall be reduced from 35 to 15. Five will be chosen by the present regime (probably Harriman...