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...months ago David Sinton Ingalls resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, got the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. Remaining in the Cabinet was his Yale and Wartime friend Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation...
...pale, ailing dowager who bears an increasing resemblance to her father, John Davison Rockefeller, was installed in a four-room suite at Chicago's Drake Hotel last week. The rooms, overlooking Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan's wave-rimmed shore, were so expensive that many persons would be glad to call them "home." But to Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick the move was a heartbreaking acquiescence to the condition she always speaks of as "the change." Once worth 40, 50, perhaps 60 million dollars, last week in her 60th year she found her tremendous fortune largely vanished...
...Wright Harriman, founder-president of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., nephew of the late Railroader Edward Henry Harriman, retired to the board chairmanship in favor of Henry Elliott Cooper, formerly one of Chase National Bank's 74 vice presidents and a onetime member of John Davison Rockefeller's personal staff. Harriman National was founded as Night & Day Bank (open continuously), changed its name in 1911, still remains open for business from...
World's Work made its great scoop in 1907, when Publisher Frank Doubleday induced John Davison Rockefeller Sr. to write his reminiscences in a series of six articles. It scored again in 1914. When the War broke out in August, Editor Arthur Page stopped the presses printing the September issue, tore down the forms, whipped together a thoroughgoing picture of the entire international scene, published it as a War Manual. Circulation, which had been about 100,000, leaped to 300,000 with that issue, stayed about 180,000 throughout the War, has since dwindled to about...
...stood ready in front of a black-&-white Hailer-Hawk sailplane named Unguentine. In the cockpit sat Warren Edward Eaton, one-time War flyer, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), president of the Soaring Society of America, Inc. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then-"Go!" At that signal the sailplane was snapped...