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...contract in the soft coal fields. Certain railroads, notably the Pennsylvania, have preferred to buy coal from distant non-Union fields rather than buy from Union mines in their own territory. Several soft coal producing companies have repudiated the wage agreement, including 1) the Consolidated Company in which John Davison Rockefeller Jr., "an estimable man with fine traits, religious and God-fearing," is a large stockholder, 2) the Pittsburgh Coal Co., "one of whose most influential stockholders is Andrew W. Mellon . . . perhaps the ablest Secretary [of the Treasury] since Alexander Hamilton, a man with admirable traits"; 3) the Bethlehem Mines...
...second question, the Fundamentalists attacked Dr. Fosdick and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (pillar of the Park Avenue Church), as well as Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the church. Dr. Woelfkin will retire when Dr. Fosdick assumes the pastorate next January, but the question was of unseating the pastor because of his rich parishioner (Rockefeller) and his prospective successor. The Fundementalists in caucuses proposed "a continent-wide war to emancipate the Baptist denomination from the deathlike grip of the powerful combination of Mammon and Modernism," and asked: "Shall the Baptist denomination become the religious department of the Standard Oil Company...
...backers were obtained and money raised. The names of Bernard M. Baruch, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., former President Burton of the University of Chicago, President Lowell of Harvard, William Cameron Forbes, onetime (1909-13) Governor-General of the Philippines, were secured as endorsers. A U. S. delegation of 25, headed by Mr. Wilbur and including William Allen White, Prof. George H. Blakeslee, Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, Prof. W. W. Willoughby, President Mary E. Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College and others, gathered. Similar efforts were undertaken in other countries?in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines. A list...
...Beta Kappa Oration will be delivered this year by Dr. John Houston Finley, Editor of the New York Times. Arthur Davison Ficke '04 has written the poem and will deliver it at the exercises this morning...
Engaged. Miss Isabel Rockefeller, grandniece of John Davison Rockefeller, to one Frederick W. Lincoln Jr. His sister, Miss Florence Lincoln, married William A. Rockefeller, cousin of Miss Rockefeller...