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When Jones took over in 1926, Fisk had only 531 college students, a debt of $216,000 and a ramshackle look. He begged money from whites and Negroes (the angels ranged from Lawyer Paul D. Cravath and Financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. to old washerwomen who scraped up $1 apiece). Jones's first purchase, over everybody else's objections, was an expensive power lawnmower. His explanation: "If Fisk is going to die, it will die with its face shaved...
...Governor of New Jersey, son of the late, great Thomas Alva Edison, was elected national chairman by United China Relief. As head of the fund which in 1943 sent $8,683,870 to war-torn China, onetime Secretary of the Navy Edison succeeds the late Manhattan Lawyer Frederick Hill (Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine &) Wood. Said Edison: "The Chinese people have purchased time for all their allies with space of their country and blood of their people...
Died. Carl August de Gersdorff, 78, senior member of the famed Manhattan law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood; after long illness; in Manhattan. Born in Salem, Mass., the son of a doctor, he went to Harvard ('87), became associated with a predecessor of the present firm in 1891, after four years was made a partner, was best known for his work in railroad reorganizations (Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific, Kansas & Texas, Western Pacific, and Frisco) and his active longtime directorships of the Baltimore & Ohio and the Missouri Pacific. His death leaves Robert Taylor Swaine, 57, the only...
Died. Frederick Hill Wood, 66, Manhattan corporation lawyer (Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1935 the Supreme Court agreed with his brief on the Schechter test case, declared the National Recovery Administration unconstitutional for trying to set wages and hours in the intrastate poultry trade. He was United China Relief's board chairman...
William Francis, 56, long and stringy, contrives to look more like an undertaker than a real one. But his friends recognize this as a mannerism which they suspect is partly affectation. It includes wearing shiny, patched clothes and shocking dinner parties with sardonic comments. Married to Manhattan Socialite Vera Cravath Larkin, daughter of the late, great lawyer Paul Cravath, he avoids society, but pops into it every once in a while, throws himself into a chair like an old rug, often turns out to be the lion of the party...