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...office in Manhattan. The guests included Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mark O. Prentiss; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; William B. Joyce, Chairman of the National Surety Co.; Governor Smith of New York, Assemblyman F. Trubee Davison and others...
...information about effective means for dealing with crime. Governor Smith of New York announced a plan for formation of a crime commission to bring the methods of preventing and punishing crime up to date. But more than a local effort was the aim of the meeting. F. Trubee Davison, son of the late Henry P. Davison (Morgan partner and head of the American Red Cross during the War), was appointed to call another meeting to gather together prominent men from many states in order to start a National Commission. Thus was a movement initiated...
Down will come some apartment houses and private dwellings near the Union Theological Seminary on Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Up will go a temple. The tearing down and the building up will be largely financed by John. Davison Rockefeller Jr. In the temple will be a pulpit. And in the pulpit will be Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...years ago, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., addressing employes of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, declared that the 12-hour day was "uneconomic and antisocial, hence bad business...
...Tarrytown, N. Y. The day before his 86th birthday, John Davison Rockefeller hastily gulped down a bowl of hot milk toast, went out to the first tee of his little 9-hole course, drove off. When he finished the round, he stated that his score was 48-an assertion smirkingly corroborated by his caddy. "The best 86-year-old golfer in the world," said his friends...