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...your publication of Jan. 14, in connection with the endurance flight, you report the message "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark," and Mr. Davison's answer: "Good. Let's trim Elijah." You cite the feeding of Elijah by the ravens, and the prophet's ascension. Both are suggestive, and I shall not argue as to what the first sender had in mind. To me it suggested Elijah's flight from the queen when, fed by an angel he went forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount...
...Indiana will be held on March 7. Only a handful of the 58,000 stockholders* will be present. But practically every stockholder will be represented by a proxy, for a bitter fight is to be settled. One group of proxies will be held by a representative of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The other will be held by Col. Robert Wright Stewart. The fight is over the re-election of Colonel Stewart as Chairman of the Board...
Eight years ago Chairman Hemphill died. Davison, the stimulator, was already dead. Arose the question of successor. President Sabin recommended and the directors recalled Mr. Potter (still a Guaranty director) from Guggenheim Bros...
...Morgan & Co.: Henry Pomeroy Davison, 30, son of the late Morgan-Partner H. P. Davison; Thomas Stillwell Lament, 29, son of Morgan-Partner T. W. Lamont; Henry Sturgis Morgan, 28, younger son of John Pierpont Morgan, head of the house; setting a precedent, in the cases of Davison and Lamont, for sons-of-partners to become partners; Thomas Newhall and Edward Hopkinson, partners in the affiliated Drexel & Co. (Philadelphia), to be both Drexel-partners and Morgan-partners; bringing the total number of partners...
Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, received a telegram: "Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark (see p. 24)." Retelegraphed Mr. Davison: "Good. Let's trim Elijah...